Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
BENJAMIN CARSONIt’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
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But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.
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(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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Went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings.
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