Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEINIf there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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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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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.
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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.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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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.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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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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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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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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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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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.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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