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.
BENJAMIN CARSONRather 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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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that’s an area that’s as big as Lebanon. It’s controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
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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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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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You have yourself to blame.
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It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
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I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
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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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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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