We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
BEN STEINPeople getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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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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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 spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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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 think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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No one will do it for you.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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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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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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