The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
BEN STEINI don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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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.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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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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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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