There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
BENJAMIN CARSONUnless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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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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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.
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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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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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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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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 have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman.
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A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay.
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