It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
BENJAMIN CARSONThere is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me. And they don’t like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.
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Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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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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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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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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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.
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But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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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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We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
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