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.
BEN STEINThe 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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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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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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No one will do it for you.
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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.
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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 did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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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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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 cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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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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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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