I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEINDarwinism 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you 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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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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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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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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’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
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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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People 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 banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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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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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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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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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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