I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
BENJAMIN CARSONWe 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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Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.
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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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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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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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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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Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
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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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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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(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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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
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If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that’s an area that’s as big as Lebanon. It’s controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.
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We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are – ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.
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