Ben Stein Quotes

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• I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
• The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
• No one will do it for you.
• 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…
• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
• Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not…
• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
• 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…
• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
• If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for…
• 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,…
• 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,…
• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
• When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all…

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