It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
BEN STEINIt isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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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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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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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.
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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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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.
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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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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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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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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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