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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

The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
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Helping Numbers Others Stress
Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed.
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Homosexual Law Men Religion
Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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Life Love Powerful Simple
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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Accomplishment People Reading
If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
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Bumper Fair Own Something Triple
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Children Choices Models Role
No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.
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Big Gog Matter Prayer
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
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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Cities Patient Strong
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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Knowing Smarter Thinking
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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Believe Doors Opportunity
I’m a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It’s not the government’s job.
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Confused Jobs Responsibility
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
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Government People Suppose
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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Allowing Fear Peril
You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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Change Fiuntamental Structure
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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People Responsibility Self
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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Danger Faces Fear
You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Giving God Praying Strength
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Proportionality Thinking Unfair
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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Boundaries Bully Pushing Resistance
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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Problem School Thinking Winning
These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.
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Comes Faith Knows Trust
Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.
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Country Job Order
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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Life Still Valuable
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Best Done God Rest
God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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Care Helping Want

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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