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.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf 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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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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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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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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I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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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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All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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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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My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That’s why I’m not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
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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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Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
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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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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.
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There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
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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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We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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