"My parents, products of the Great Depression, were……" — Ben Stein
"My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well."
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102 Quotes by Ben Stein
Ben Stein has 102 quotes on this site.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up…
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I cannot tell you ... how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is…
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove…
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for…
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I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly…
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to…
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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it…
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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It's a lot better to hope than not to.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the…
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
— Lynda Barry
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
— Michael Bloomberg
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in…
— David Bohm
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.
— Richard Brautigan
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Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all.
— Joyce Brothers
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That's gotta be the one remaining constant - jeans have gotta be tight, baby.
— Luke Bryan
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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