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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: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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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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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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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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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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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