If 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 STEINFathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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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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It means zero to be against greed.
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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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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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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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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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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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It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
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As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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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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