It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
BEN STEINIf you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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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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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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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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It means zero to be against greed.
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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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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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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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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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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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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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 have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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