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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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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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Family
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Ben Stein
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I dont believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. – Ben Stein

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best
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Ben Stein
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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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Knowledge
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Truth hurts — not the searching after; the running from! – John Eyberg

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Self-Discovery

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. – Richard Bach

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Self-Discovery

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. – Thomas Mann

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Self-Discovery

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond

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Self-Discovery

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We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. – Jim DeMint

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In judging ourselves, we cannot be too severe; in judging others, we cannot be too candid. We should judge ourselves by our motives, but others by their actions. – William Nevins (1797–1835)

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I mean, what is music anyway? Its a form of communication – at least for me it is. And thats why I play the kind of music that I think – that I hope – can communicate with people. – Kenny G

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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Life