Quote by Ben Stein
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make e

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

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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. – Ben Stein

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Faith
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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 Ive grown older, Ive realized just how smart Knight was. – Ben Stein

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sad
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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. – Ben Stein

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The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Society

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what Im saying is common sense. Its very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values. – Ai Weiwei

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Society

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. – Luc de Clapiers

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Society

Our whole society is instantaneous. – Bryan Cranston

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