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I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

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Ben Stein
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 25
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
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Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.
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Science leads you to killing people.
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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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If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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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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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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I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.
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I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.
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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.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun it's the best job on Earth.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.
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