Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf 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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There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
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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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There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.
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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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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
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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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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government’s job and I think where we’ve gotten confused.
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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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Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.
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I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
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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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