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.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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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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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.
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No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.
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You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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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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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
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Went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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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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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
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