Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
BEN STEINEvery soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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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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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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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.
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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