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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Benjamin Carson

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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Favorite Mother Smart Subject
Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Easily People Person Uninformed
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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Country Establish Principle Squares
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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Happiness Inspiring Success
Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
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Billion Bills Dollars Giving
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
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Able Feelings Restoration
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Black Decided Stacked Wanted
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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Made Relationship Sacred
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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Danger Needs War
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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God Please Purpose Serving
Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
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Real School Thinking
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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Ideas Pay Way
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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Knowing Smarter Thinking
No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
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Airplane Needs Oxygen
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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Fruit Harvest Labor
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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Christmas Mean People
What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, “they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us”.
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Attitude Brotherhood Land
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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Christian Giving Happy Inspirational
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
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Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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Dream Hard Work Perseverance
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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Believe Important Jobs
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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Children Choices Models Role
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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Dog Rabbit Today
We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
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Korea Military Responsibility
By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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Able Compassion Decrease Elevate Eventually Personal Situation

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