I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
BENJAMIN CARSONIf we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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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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No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
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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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I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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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.
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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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Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
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And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.
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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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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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