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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.

Benjamin Carson

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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Operation Patient Together
I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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Safety Safety Net Want
I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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Like Potential Remembered Someone
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Common Honesty People Sense
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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Ideas Pay Way
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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Conservative Sense Thinking
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
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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Concentrate Needs People World
Economics is not brain surgery.
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Brain Neurosurgeon Wise Words
You have yourself to blame.
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Allow Blame Yourself
Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
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Couple Thinking Years
I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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Careers Doors Way
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
I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider.
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Care Numbers Thinking
(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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Brain Half Thinking
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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Attack People Racist Thinking White
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
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
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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Home Names Opponent People
An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.
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Helping Knowledge Learning Others
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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Class Country Design
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
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Achievement Ignorance Reading
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Economic Military Needs
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
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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Brain Normal Special

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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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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