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.
BEN STEINScience should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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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.
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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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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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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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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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Science leads you to killing people.
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No one will do it for you.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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