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It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.


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BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
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BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
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