I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
BENJAMIN CARSONSurrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
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We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
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(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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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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You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
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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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If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
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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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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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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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