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.
BEN STEINIsrael is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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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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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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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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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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