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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
Ben Stein
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Ben Stein
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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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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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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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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I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun it's the best job on Earth.
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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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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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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