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 STEINI am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
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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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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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