Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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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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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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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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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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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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It’s about how Darwin ‘s theory – supposedly concocted by this mild-mannered saintly man, with a flowing white beard like Santa Claus – led to the murder of millions of innocent people.
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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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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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When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
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I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
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Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
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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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Science leads you to killing people.
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I did some reading to prep for Expelled. I read one book cover to cover, From Darwin to Hitler , and that was a very interesting book – one of these rare books I wish had been even longer.
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Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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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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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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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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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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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