Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
BEN STEINA corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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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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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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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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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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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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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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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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