I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
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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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I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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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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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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I 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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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
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Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.
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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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All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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