Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
BENJAMIN CARSONI detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
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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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Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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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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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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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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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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Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
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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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Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
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Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Economics is not brain surgery.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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