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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.

Benjamin Carson

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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Economic Giving Government Models
Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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Hard Opportunity Sight Work
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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Danger Faces Fear
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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Enemy Mean Trying
You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Giving God Praying Strength
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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Bumper Fair Own Something Triple
The kind of job doesn’t matter. The length of time on the job doesn’t matter… If you work hard and do your best, you’ll be recognized and move onward.
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Hard Work Jobs Moving
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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Classical Music Profound School
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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Believe Doors Opportunity
Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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Make Necessary One Wise
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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Information People Way
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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Children Discipline Training
God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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Care Helping Want
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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Ask Giving Play Risk Wisdom
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Country Political United States
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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Abuse May Wells
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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Danger Needs War
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
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Fighting Matter Motivation
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
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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Favorite Mother Smart Subject
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Economic Military Needs
Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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Knowledge People Special
Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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Creativity Different Perspective
I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.
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People Romance Running
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Proportionality Thinking Unfair
I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
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Fairs Guy Thinking

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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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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