I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
BEN STEINPersonal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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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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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, ‘Just go to sleep.’ Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized just how smart Knight was.
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If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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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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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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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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It means zero to be against greed.
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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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