Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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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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If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama’s not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don’t get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
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America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
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When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
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I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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I’m a good neurosugeon. That’s not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
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Maybe that’s the problem. But whether they’ve heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff,
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Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
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Every one of us must fight for it, because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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