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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
- Ben Stein
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#People
#Sad
#Say
#Want
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
- Ben Stein
#Evil
#Fight
#Finance
#Fraud
#Work
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
- Ben Stein
#America
#Place
#Planet
#Smartest
#Wind
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.'
- Ben Stein
#Destination
#Love
#Me
#Perfect
#Travel
I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
- Ben Stein
#Expert
#Finance
#Know
#Myself
#Others
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
- Ben Stein
#Advice
#Father
#Sad
#Sleep
#Smart
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.
- Ben Stein
#Age
#Amazing
#God
#Man
#Smart
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.
- Ben Stein
#Achievement
#Fear
#Great
#I Am
#Me
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
- Ben Stein
#Done
#Equality
#Forget
#Law
#Rights
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
- Ben Stein
#Because
#Begin
#Get
#Go
#Overcome
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
- Ben Stein
#Believe
#God
#People
#Sick
#Tired
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
- Ben Stein
#Achieve
#Happy
#Human Spirit
#Spirit
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
- Ben Stein
#Achievement
#Life
#Real
#Soil
#Success
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.
- Ben Stein
#Nothing
#Own
#Understand
#Way
#Will
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
#Decide
#First Step
#Life
#Step
#Want
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
- Ben Stein
#Face
#Fall
#Hands
#Jump
#Stars
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.
- Ben Stein
#Defeat
#Life
#Never
#Spirit
#Will
I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
- Ben Stein
#Days
#Fast
#Life
#My Life
#Never
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.
- Ben Stein
#Beautiful
#Christmas
#Feel
#I Am
#Me
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
#Decide
#First Step
#Life
#Step
#Want
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.
- Ben Stein
#Effort
#First Step
#Pain
#Step
#Will
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
- Ben Stein
#Believing
#Faith
#God
#Knowing
#Will
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.
- Ben Stein
#Experience
#Funny
#Good
#Parenting
#Pure
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
- Ben Stein
#Amazing
#Ordinary
#People
#Set
#Without
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