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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.

Benjamin Carson

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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Dark Night Skeletons
I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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Like Potential Remembered Someone
When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
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Debt God Kindness People Privilege
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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Helping Knowledge Learning Others
It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
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Cities Excuse People
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Feelings Special Underestimate
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
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
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Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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Germany Nazi Way
We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
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Dramatic Ending Fall Stope Wish Witness
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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Enemy Mean Trying
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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Fruit Harvest Labor
I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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Safety Safety Net Want
I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
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Fairs Guy Thinking
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Best Done God Rest

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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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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