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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like b

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing. – Ben Stein

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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed. – Ben Stein

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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the childs tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. Its not funny and its not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isnt the least bit funny. – Ben Stein

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Experience
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein

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The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. – Georges Simenon

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To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them – these nature spirits who call us here – sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love. – Alex Grey

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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. – Arthur Keith

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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or were atheist. – Anthony Hopkins

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Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. – Izaak Walton

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Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Fame changes a lot of things, but it cant change a lightbulb. – Gilda Radner

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I dont wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that Im really serious about making these movies. – LL Cool J

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