That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
BEN STEINThe sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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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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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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