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.
BEN STEINWe in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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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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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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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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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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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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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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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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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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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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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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