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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.

Ben Stein

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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Design Heaven Intelligent
Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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Exertion Responsibility Way
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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Trying Upset Winning
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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Done Everything Life Pain Real
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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Become Get Ill Old Scare
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’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
Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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Missing Pieces Principles
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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First People Running
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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Double Real Stand Star Stunt
And there hasn’t been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
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Much Progress Since
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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Children Mean People
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Hollywood Men Stories
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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Ideas Race Racism
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 think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.

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