Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
BENJAMIN CARSONMiddle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.
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You have yourself to blame.
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If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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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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Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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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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