Quote by Ben Stein
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. – 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

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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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Its really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isnt even more fraud. After all, with no God, theres no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. – Ben Stein

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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. – Hugh Prather

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There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. – Josephine Hart

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Man can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as… from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940

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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. – Michel de Montaigne

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If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. – Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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