I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
BENJAMIN CARSONYou know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.
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Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
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I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
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We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other’s enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
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Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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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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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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There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
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Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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