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 STEINIf there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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.
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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 I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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No one will do it for you.
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