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.
BEN STEINIt means zero to be against greed.
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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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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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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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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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 don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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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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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 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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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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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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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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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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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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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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