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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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, Just go to sleep. Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as Ive grown older, Ive realized just how smart Knight was. – Ben Stein

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sad
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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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Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
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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
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. – Harry Emerson Fosdick, On Being a Real Person

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Self-Discovery

We are the products of editing, rather than authorship. – George Wald, “The Origin of Optical Activity,” Annals of the New York Academy of

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Self-Discovery

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

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Self-Discovery

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In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. Its such a gamble. – Robert Carlyle

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Money

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because thats what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. – Mindy Kaling

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Religion is a mixed blessing. – John Shelby Spong

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Religion

I love the game, its the greatest game on earth, thats why I cant understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? Thats the beauty of baseball. There is no time element. – Eric Davis

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Beauty