People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
BEN STEINPrime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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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.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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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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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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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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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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