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 STEIN- Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
BEN STEINUsually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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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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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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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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A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
BEN STEINA corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEINYou can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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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 STEINIt 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 hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
BEN STEINMy ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEINIt’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEINI don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.
BOBBY HUTCHERSON


