We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
BEN STEINI am scared of running out of money.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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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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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
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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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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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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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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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