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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make e

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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I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy. – Ben Stein

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Its amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. – 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

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In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. – Robert Greene Ingersoll, “The New Testament,” Some Reasons Why, 1881

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