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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.

Ben Stein

I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
BEN STEIN

Country People School
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
BEN STEIN

Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful Men Years
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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Airplane Country Lying Virginia
I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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Believe School Successful
I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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Smart Thinking Wall
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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Trying Upset Winning
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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Country Debt Enslave Everyone Selling Service World
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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Compassion Empathy People
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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Belief Philosophy Thinking
You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Action Table Winning
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Men Thinking Trying
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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Gratitude Laughter relief
As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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Media People Personality
I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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Brilliant Evolution Thinking
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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Country Dollar Hate
Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Interest Occupation Thankless
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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Hate Moon Russia
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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Alive Mean Media
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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Allies Country Middle East
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Christian Island Religious
If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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Making Money Recessions
I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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Doubt Ideas Rumor
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Done Maps Planning
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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People Spend Wanted Years
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.
BEN STEIN

Believe Christian Tired

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