I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
BEN STEINThe human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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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.
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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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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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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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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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