The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-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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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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