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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.

Benjamin Carson

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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Brain Normal Special
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Important Our Success World
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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Gifts Goal Happen Keys Leadership Thinking
If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
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Matter Military Nothing
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
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Block Hypocrite Kids
I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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Cities Patient Strong
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Economic Military Needs
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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Doctors Interesting Thinking
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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Honesty Truth Worry
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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Behind Goes Mistake
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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Hard Work Jobs Moving
Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Easily People Person Uninformed
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
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Danger Faces Fear
Economics is not brain surgery.
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Brain Neurosurgeon Wise Words
Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.
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Country Job Order

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.

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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.

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