I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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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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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I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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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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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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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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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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