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But 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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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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America Beautiful Sleep
I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
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People Thinking Unique
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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Animal Breathing Mean
It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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Determination Inspirational Success
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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Friendly Long People
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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Compassion Empathy People
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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Anyone Else Long People Person Trying
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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Believe Christian Tired
So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
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League Media Wife
I am scared of running out of money.
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Money Running Scared
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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Cadillacs Soul
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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Class College Teaching
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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Credit Law People
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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Games Real Sitting Stretch
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.
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Country Dollar Hate
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Believe Faith Knowing

But 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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But 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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