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.
BENJAMIN CARSONBullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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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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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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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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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings.
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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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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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In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman.
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You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government’s job and I think where we’ve gotten confused.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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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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The kind of job doesn’t matter. The length of time on the job doesn’t matter… If you work hard and do your best, you’ll be recognized and move onward.
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It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
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