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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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Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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Benjamin J. Stein
Benjamin Stein
Benjamin Jeremy Stein
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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 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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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
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Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.
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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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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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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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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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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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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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