I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
BEN STEINThe poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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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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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
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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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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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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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