Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.
BEN STEINI am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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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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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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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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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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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.
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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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I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
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Darwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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