My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
BEN STEINI always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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No one will do it for you.
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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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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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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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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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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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