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 STEINThe successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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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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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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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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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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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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