If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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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’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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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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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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We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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