By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
BENJAMIN CARSONIntelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
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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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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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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.
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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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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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced…I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
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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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I’m a good neurosugeon. That’s not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
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I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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