If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
BENJAMIN CARSONAn important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.
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Our 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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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman.
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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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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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If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
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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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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
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It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that’s an area that’s as big as Lebanon. It’s controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
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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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I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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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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It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
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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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