What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
BEN STEINNow 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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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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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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I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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I 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.
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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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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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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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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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