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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

Benjamin Carson

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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Care Doctors Medical
I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings.
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Doctors Interesting Thinking
There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
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Average Brain Normal Superior
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Proportionality Thinking Unfair
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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Behind Goes Mistake
Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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Country Government Issues
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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Cutting Doctor Keys
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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Increase Knowledge Limits Reading World
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
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Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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Believe Crazy Thinking
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 Please Purpose Serving
You have yourself to blame.
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Allow Blame Yourself
By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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Big Our Think Thinking World
We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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Future Oblivion Planning Plans
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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Gay Long People
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
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
You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Giving God Praying Strength
You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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Christmas Mean People
The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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Able Brain Important Rapidly
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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Ideas Pay Way
If 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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Hurt Negative Positive Thinking
Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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Brain Thinking Way
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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Apart Common More Much People

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

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