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.
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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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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 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.
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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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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 am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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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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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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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That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
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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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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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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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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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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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