The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
BENJAMIN CARSONWhat is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.
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Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay.
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.
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Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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I’m a good neurosugeon. That’s not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
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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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It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one’s beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.
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I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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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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America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn’t matter how much you make.
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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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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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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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