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Ben Stein

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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Broke Going Remote
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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Belief Philosophy Thinking
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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Motivational Perseverance Spirit
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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Beautiful Men Years
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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Black Man Men White
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Real Running Valley
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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Citizens Government Hypocrisy
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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Ago Anticipate Seems
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Attempting Disprove Should
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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Government Needs Pay
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 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 am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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Beautiful People Tree
People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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Exception People Rich

We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.

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