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I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

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Ben Stein
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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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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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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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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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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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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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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It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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It's a lot better to hope than not to.
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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 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 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 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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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they 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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There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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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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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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