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I 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.

Benjamin Carson

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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Being Lied Problem Truth
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
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Average Brain Normal Superior
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Economic Military Needs
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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Effort Risk Should
You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government’s job and I think where we’ve gotten confused.
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Confuse Constituition Gotten Governmenrt Say
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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Doctors Government People
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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Made Relationship Sacred
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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Honesty Truth Worry
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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Country Education Sports
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Country Political United States
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
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Helping Numbers Others Stress
Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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Life Love Powerful Simple
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
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Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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Giving Jobs Trying
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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Creationism Evolution Matter

I 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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