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.
BEN STEINIt’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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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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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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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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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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