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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

Benjamin Carson

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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Dark Night Skeletons
And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
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Everything Necessary Real Thinking Two
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Proportionality Thinking Unfair
You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.
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Believer Economics Miracle
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
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Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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Future Oblivion Planning Plans
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?
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Giving People Realizing
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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Body Environment Increase
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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Favorite Mother Smart Subject
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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People Romance Running
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
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Differences Order Our World
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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Dream Hard Work Perseverance
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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Appropriately Assess Really Risk Unless
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

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