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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Ben Stein

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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Days Hollywood Perfect Vacation
I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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Consequences Explain Implication Little Species
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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Exertion Responsibility Way
I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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Friendly Long People
I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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Good Things Thinking
I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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Families Military Taken Thinking
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.
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Country Hard Work People
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 indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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Asks Believe Country Religion
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
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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Country People School
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
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
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Car Moving Sleep
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.
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Alive Mean Media
It means zero to be against greed.
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Greed Mean Zero
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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Country Party Realizing
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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Lucky Taken
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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Doubt Ideas Rumor
It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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Birthday Men Smart
I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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Best Fun Jobs More Wizard
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
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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Congress Court Sparks
If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Eye Hair Knows
That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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Beyond Horrifying Just Opinion Science
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Black People Wind

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