I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other’s enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
BENJAMIN CARSONNo 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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Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
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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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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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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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Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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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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Economics is not brain surgery.
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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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One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
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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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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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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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