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.
BENJAMIN CARSONWhat is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
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There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
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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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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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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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Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other’s enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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