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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

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Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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Benjamin J. Stein
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Benjamin Jeremy Stein
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I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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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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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Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
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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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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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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 means zero to be against greed.
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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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Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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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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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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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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