When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
BEN STEINI have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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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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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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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Americans 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.
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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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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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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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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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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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