I 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.
BEN STEINIt’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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
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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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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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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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Science leads you to killing people.
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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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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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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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We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day – every single day – we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us.
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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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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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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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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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