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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

I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
BEN STEIN

Country People School
It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
BEN STEIN

Country Hard Work People
I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
BEN STEIN

Country Human Vote
I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
BEN STEIN

Issues Numbers Thinking
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Believe Faith Knowing
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Bed Listening Lying
The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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Double Real Stand Star Stunt
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
BEN STEIN

Eye Hair Knows
I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
BEN STEIN

Grateful Gratitude Rich
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
BEN STEIN

Alive Mean Media
What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
BEN STEIN

Home Inspirational Parenting
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
BEN STEIN

Buisness Car Home Loan Trying
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
BEN STEIN

Helping Matter Others
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
Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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Military Morning Stars
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace

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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