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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 Stein

I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
BEN STEIN

Country People School
The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Black People Wind
Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
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Congress Court Sparks
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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Country Human Vote
I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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Book Interesting Men Reading
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Attempting Disprove Should
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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Inquiry Lines Scientist
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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Doubt Ideas Rumor
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Done Maps Planning
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.
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Ago Anticipate Seems
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Christian Island Religious
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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People Spend Wanted Years
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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Innocent Manner Million Murder People Theory
The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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Double Real Stand Star Stunt
The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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Causes Community Gone
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.
BEN STEIN

Airplane Country Lying Virginia

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.

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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.

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