Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
BEN STEINThe America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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 first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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If 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.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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The 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.
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I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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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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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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