The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
BEN STEINFor me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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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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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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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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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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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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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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