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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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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Society
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Ben Stein
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. – Ben Stein

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finance
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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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Age
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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. – George Herbert

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Self-Discovery

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. – G.K. Chesterton, “The Logic of Elfland,” Orthodoxy, 1908

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Self-Discovery

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. – Arthur Christopher Benson

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Self-Discovery

“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures

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Self-Discovery

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Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. – Albert Laighton

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Easter

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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Future

Hard work, worry and whiskey are the friends of man. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Alcohol

Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd. – Voltaire, 1767

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Miscellaneous