Ben Stein Quotes

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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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  Government, Hypocrisy, Citizens

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• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

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  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Missing, Principles, Pieces

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty, transcripts.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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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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  Gratitude, Grateful, Rich

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• And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

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  Citizens, Paradoxical, Prove

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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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  Rights, Law, Done

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• Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

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  Faith, Believe, Knowing

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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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  Inspirational, Home, Parenting

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• Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve - no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!

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  Jobs, Two, Years

  Fox News Documentary, April 14, 2008.

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• I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

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  Seems, Ifs

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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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  Men, Fields, Succeed

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• Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

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  Helping Others, Matter, Helping

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Life, Motivational, Relationship

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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. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

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  Stars, Real, Men

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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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  Motivational, Perseverance, Spirit

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• Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

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  Should, Attempting

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• It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

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  Country, Hard Work, People

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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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  Philosophy, Thinking, Belief

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.62, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Christian, Believe, Tired

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

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  Country, Hate, Dollars

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

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  Sleep, People, Achievement

  "Ben Stein Wants You To Sleep". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

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  Motivational, Stars, Dirty

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• The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

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  Getting What You Want, Firsts, Steps

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• Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

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  Responsibility, Way, Exertion

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