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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Ben Stein

We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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Country Evil Thinking
The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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Allow Harmonize Personality Protect
I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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Different Doe Large Loss Money
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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Briefly Economist Training Work
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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Done Law Rights
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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Believe Christian Tired
I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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Smart Thinking Wall
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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Beautiful People Tree
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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People Reality Successful
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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Becoming Beverly Conservative Hills
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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Beautiful Men Years
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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Goal Pyramids Steps
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Fields Men Succeed
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Hollywood Men Stories

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

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