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 CARSONThere 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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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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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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A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
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Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
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I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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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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We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.
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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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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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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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