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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

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Ben Stein
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.
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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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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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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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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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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 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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You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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