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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less

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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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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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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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. – Ben Stein

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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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I feel like 35. At 35 youre old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35! – Michael Caine

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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. – Christopher Dawson

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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