I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
BEN STEINThe successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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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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That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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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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No one will do it for you.
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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 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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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