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There’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.

Benjamin Carson

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
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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Fall Men Oppose Pressure Two
The left, of course, will say Carson doesn’t believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn’t believe in fighting stupid wars. And – and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.
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Believe Country General Person Remember Say Utilize
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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Choices Destiny Opportunity
We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
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Dramatic Ending Fall Stope Wish Witness
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 always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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People Running Want
If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
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Acknowledge Helping Needs
Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
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Billion Bills Dollars Giving
Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Easily People Person Uninformed
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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Ideas Pay Way
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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Danger Faces Fear
(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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Brain Half Thinking
There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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Physicians Reason Scientist
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
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
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
No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
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Airplane Needs Oxygen
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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Book Library Reading
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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Better Neglect Nobody Patient
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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Ask Giving Play Risk Wisdom
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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Daughter Government Lying
By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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Able Compassion Decrease Elevate Eventually Personal Situation
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
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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Exercise Mean Opportunity
God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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Care Helping Want

There’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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There’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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