I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
BENJAMIN CARSONCreativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
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Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
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I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.
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If you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
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We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn’t mean we won’t have difficulties along the way. We will – we all do… If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can’t win,” we moan. “They won’t let us win.”
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An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.
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I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.
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