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Why 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.

Benjamin Carson

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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Operation Patient Together
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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Conservative Sense Thinking
Some people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
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Boisterous People Rude
God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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Care Helping Want
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
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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Important People Risk
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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Dream Hard Work Perseverance
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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Book Library Reading
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Black Decided Stacked Wanted
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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Christian Lebanon People
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
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Choices Poverty Realizing
All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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Defensive Provide Some Weapon Willing
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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Flames People Understanding
We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
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Dog Rabbit Today
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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Class Country Design
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

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