If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
BEN STEINI am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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We 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.
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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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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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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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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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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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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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