But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
BEN STEINYou can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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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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I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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I 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.
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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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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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For 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.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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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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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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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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