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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

Benjamin Carson

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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Able Compassion Decrease Elevate Eventually Personal Situation
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
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Dignity Nice World
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
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Exercise Mean Opportunity
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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Determination Hands Skills
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
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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Brain Normal Special
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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People Responsibility Self
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Important Our Success World
My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That’s why I’m not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
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Giving Hard Work Mother
Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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Knowledge People Special
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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Daughter Government Lying
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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Economic Giving Government Models
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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Believe Crazy Thinking
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
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Children Discipline Training
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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Dream Hard Work Perseverance

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