We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama’s not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don’t get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
BENJAMIN CARSONThere’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
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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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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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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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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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Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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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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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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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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