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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.

Benjamin Carson

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Baghdad Giving Strange
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
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Achievement School Yale
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
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
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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Effort Risk Should
It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one’s beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.
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Freedom Practice Religious
People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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Looks People Problem
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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Christian Lebanon People
Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
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Mother Scare Years
We 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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Country Military People President
The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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Doors People World
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
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
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
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Agendas Black Life Pro
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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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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