You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEINPeople getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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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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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.
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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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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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.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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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 came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
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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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