It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
BEN STEINI’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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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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I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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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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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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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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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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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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It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
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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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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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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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