After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
BEN STEINLove of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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 did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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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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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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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.
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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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It means zero to be against greed.
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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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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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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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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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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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