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 STEINFaith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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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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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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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 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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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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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.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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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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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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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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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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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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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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