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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.

Benjamin Carson

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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People Responsibility Self
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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Dark Night Skeletons
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
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Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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Future Oblivion Planning Plans
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
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Choices Poverty Realizing
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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Hands Party Victory
If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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Hurt Negative Positive Thinking
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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Inspirational Moving Success
It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
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People Risk Wise
All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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Defensive Provide Some Weapon Willing
Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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Brain Normal Special
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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Empires Moral Much Together Value
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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Believe Important Jobs
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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Believe People Smart
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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Destroy Happen Themselves Snatching
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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Concentrate Needs People World
The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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Doors People World
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
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Children Discipline Training
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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Life Neurosurgeons Way
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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Happiness Inspiring Success
We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
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Dog Rabbit Today
You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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Everything God Try Trying
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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Fields Rise Talent Top Use
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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Behind Goes Mistake
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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Dream Hard Work Perseverance

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.

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