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 STEIN
BEN STEIN
Ben Stein
Ben Stein140 quotes“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.”
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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
Ben SteinBen Stein And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Ben SteinBen Stein As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
Ben SteinBen Stein There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
Ben SteinBen Stein I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
Ben SteinBen Stein Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
Ben SteinBen Stein 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.
Ben SteinBen Stein The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
Ben SteinBen Stein Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
Ben SteinBen Stein Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
Ben SteinBen Stein My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
Ben SteinBen Stein Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
Ben SteinBen Stein The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
Ben SteinBen Stein 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.
Ben SteinBen Stein 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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