I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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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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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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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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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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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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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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