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.
BEN STEINSomewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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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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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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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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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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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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