No one will do it for you.
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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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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.
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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 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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The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
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I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
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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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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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