A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
BENJAMIN CARSONCorporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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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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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.
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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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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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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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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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There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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Some people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that’s an area that’s as big as Lebanon. It’s controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.
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Economics is not brain surgery.
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