Ben Stein: "I came to realize that life lived to..."

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Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American writer, lawyer, actor, economist, comedian, and commentator on political and economic issues. He began his career as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field as an actor, comedian, and game show host....

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

—Ben Stein

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

—Ben Stein

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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone—even to himself.

—Andre Malraux

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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

—Albert Einstein

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We only know of one duty, and that is to love.

—Albert Camus

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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty… This is my highest and best use as a human.

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