Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
BEN STEIN
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben SteinBen Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
Ben SteinBen Stein Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
Ben SteinBen Stein You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
Ben SteinBen Stein Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
Ben SteinBen Stein Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
Ben SteinBen Stein The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
Ben SteinBen Stein You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
Ben SteinBen Stein I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
Ben SteinBen Stein Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
Ben SteinBen Stein For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
Ben SteinBen Stein I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
Ben SteinBen Stein I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
Ben SteinBen Stein Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
Ben SteinBen Stein 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 SteinBen Stein After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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man’s oldest and least reputable occupation – war.
Barbara WardBarbara Ward … that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HippocratesHippocrates Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael