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Favorite Ben Stein Quotes

1. "I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human." ~ Ben Stein
2. "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." ~ Ben Stein
3. "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." ~ Ben Stein
4. "It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions." ~ Ben Stein
5. "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." ~ Ben Stein
6. "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows." ~ Ben Stein
7. "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." ~ Ben Stein
8. "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 an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators." ~ Ben Stein
9. "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." ~ Ben Stein
10. "Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars." ~ Ben Stein
11. "The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy." ~ Ben Stein
12. "I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God." ~ Ben Stein
13. "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." ~ Ben Stein
14. "The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is." ~ Ben Stein
15. "It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it." ~ Ben Stein
16. "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 smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was." ~ Ben Stein
17. "I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America." ~ Ben Stein

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He never passed any kind of moral judgement on the various things that had been done to him in the course of his career not did he try to explain them. Much that was unjust and still more that was simply unintelligble seemed to be accepted, not only without resentment, but with a certain satisfaction provided only that is was striking."
Author: C.S. Lewis

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