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 STEINI am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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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’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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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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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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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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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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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.
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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.
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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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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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.
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