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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

Ben Stein

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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Compassion Empathy People
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
BEN STEIN

Failure Moving Time
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Done Maps Planning
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEIN

Black People Wind
It means zero to be against greed.
BEN STEIN

Greed Mean Zero
I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
BEN STEIN

Boys Males Surprise
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?
BEN STEIN

Country Evil Thinking
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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Like List Making Sound
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.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful Men Years
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Fields Men Succeed
Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
BEN STEIN

Home Night Sleep
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
BEN STEIN

Country Dollar Hate
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
The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
BEN STEIN

Average Far Know Numbershabit Years

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