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Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.

Benjamin Carson

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
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Blood Mind Prayer
I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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Safety Safety Net Want
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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Interesting Lot Mathematician Require Scientist
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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Done might Operating Room
I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
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Fairs Guy Thinking
You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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Change Fiuntamental Structure
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Important Our Success World
All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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Defensive Provide Some Weapon Willing
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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Being Lied Problem Truth
A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay.
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Crazy Gay Prison Straight Stupid
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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Helping Others People Quickly Thinking
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
I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced…I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
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Community Country Peaceful People Person Religion
Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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Boundaries Bully Pushing Resistance

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.

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Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.

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