It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
BEN STEINI don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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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.
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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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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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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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