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 STEINI 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 STEINThe America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
BEN STEINYou can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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 STEINYou cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEINRunning a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
BEN STEINAmericans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
BEN STEINMy ‘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.
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.
BEN STEINThe 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.
BEN STEINHumans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
BEN STEINThe education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
BEN STEINIf we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
BEN STEINThe scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
BEN STEINIt’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
BEN STEINPut 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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