Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
BEN CARSONYou don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
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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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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It’s not the environment, it’s not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It’s what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities – and I’m talking about both Republicans and Democrats – who believe that when you’re elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave.
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There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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