I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
BEN STEINWe 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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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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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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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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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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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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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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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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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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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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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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