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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

Ben Stein

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
BEN STEIN

God Stealing Telling Truth
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
BEN STEIN

People Spend Wanted Years
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEIN

Action Table Winning
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.
BEN STEIN

Done Everything Life Pain Real
That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
BEN STEIN

Beyond Horrifying Just Opinion Science
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.
BEN STEIN

Missing Pieces Principles
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEIN

People Reality Successful
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
BEN STEIN

Doubt Ideas Rumor
Science leads you to killing people.
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Killing People Religion
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
BEN STEIN

Inquiry Lines Scientist
I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
BEN STEIN

Smart Thinking Wall
I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEIN

Briefly Economist Training Work
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 STEIN

Goal Pyramids Steps
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
BEN STEIN

Credit Law People
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
BEN STEIN

Trying Upset Winning
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 STEIN

Asking Children Stranger

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