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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
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Enough
Equal
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
Ben Stein
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
Ben Stein
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Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.
Ben Stein
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
Ben Stein
American
Businesses
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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.
Ben Stein
Back
Banks
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
Ben Stein
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Anyone
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Ben Stein
Faults
Just
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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
Ben Stein
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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.
Ben Stein
Against
Animal
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It means zero to be against greed
Ben Stein
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Greed
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.
Ben Stein
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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
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
Ben Stein
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
Ben Stein
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Gone
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
Ben Stein
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
Ben Stein
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Ben Stein
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
Ben Stein
Amazing
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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
Ben Stein
American
Better
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
Ben Stein
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
Ben Stein
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
Ben Stein
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Bed
IAm
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Ben Stein
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Becoming
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
Ben Stein
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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.
Ben Stein
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God
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ILove
Life
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
Ben Stein
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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.
Ben Stein
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
Voltaire
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Voltaire
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki Murakami
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You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Haruki Murakami
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Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
Haruki Murakami
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Haruki Murakami
Despair
Just
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Haruki Murakami
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Everything
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I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
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In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.
Haruki Murakami
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Conclusions
Every
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I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
Haruki Murakami
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Haruki Murakami
Cannot
Concentrate
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I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.
Haruki Murakami
Always
Big
Get
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I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
Haruki Murakami
Am
Doing
Fast
I Am
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If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Haruki Murakami
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Don't Care
Else
Everyone
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
Haruki Murakami
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Guy
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It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.
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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami
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Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.
Haruki Murakami
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A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
Haruki Murakami
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