I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
BEN STEINMy feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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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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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
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I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
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That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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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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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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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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