What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
BENJAMIN CARSONWhy I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
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The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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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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We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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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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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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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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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
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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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There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
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If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
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