As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
BEN STEINThe human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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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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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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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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I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
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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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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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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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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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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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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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