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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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Ben Stein
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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Benjamin J. Stein
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Benjamin Jeremy Stein
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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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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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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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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.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.
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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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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'
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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
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I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings.... I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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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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