If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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You have yourself to blame.
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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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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.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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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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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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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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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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We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
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Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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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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Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
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