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.
BEN STEINIt 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.
BEN STEINIf there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
BEN STEINWhen Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
BEN STEINThe America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
BEN STEINThe poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEINWe 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 don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
BEN STEINI love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEINWhen 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.
BEN STEINAcademic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
BEN STEINI think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
BEN STEINIt’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEINUsually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called ‘Legend’ by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
BEN STEINIf 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.
BEN STEINIf you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
BEN STEINYou cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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