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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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Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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It means zero to be against greed.
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I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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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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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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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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There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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