If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
BEN STEINIf there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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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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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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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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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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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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Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
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