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Ben Stein Quotes

born 1944 United States

Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born 25 November 1944) is an American lawyer, economist, law professor, actor, comedian, author and former White House speechwriter. He is best known as host of the Comedy Central game show Win Ben Stein's Money, his deadpan portrayal of the history teacher in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and as spokesman for Clear Eyes brand eye drops.

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

Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996)

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.

God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].

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.

Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.

The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn "forced" the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Stein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.