I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
BEN STEINAfter all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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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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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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The 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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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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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.
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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