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.
BENJAMIN CARSONI started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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Say your prayers. And I’ll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
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You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.
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Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed.
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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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It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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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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I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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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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