Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
BENJAMIN CARSONOur 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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A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
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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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Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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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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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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Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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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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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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The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
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Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
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