I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
BEN STEINBut when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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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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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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It’s a great stretch for me to do my game show. It’s very hard. It’s not me at all. The only part that’s me is sort of when I’m sitting in the booth looking tormented. That’s the only part that’s the real me.
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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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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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