It’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.
BENJAMIN CARSONOur schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
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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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Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
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The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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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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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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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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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
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If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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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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