The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEINI 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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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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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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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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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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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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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