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

Benjamin Carson

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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Fulfill Helping Lives Want
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
Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.
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Attitude Mental Positive Use
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Economic Military Needs
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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Inspirational Moving Success
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
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Achievement School Yale
By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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Big Our Think Thinking World
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
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Average Brain Normal Superior
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
Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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Hated Poor Poverty
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
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Feelings Special Underestimate
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
Middle 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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Couple Thinking Years
Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.
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After All God Universe
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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Country Education Sports
You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.
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Children Dog Running
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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Done might Operating Room
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
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
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.
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Country Military People President
There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
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Doors Knowledge Things Useless
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
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
You have yourself to blame.
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Allow Blame Yourself
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
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.
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Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball

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