Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEINPrime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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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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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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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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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 indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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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.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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