Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
BEN STEINWhen Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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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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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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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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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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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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I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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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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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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