America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn’t matter how much you make.
BENJAMIN CARSONHappiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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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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Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they’ll beat a path to your door.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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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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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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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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If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.
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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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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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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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