If you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf 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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(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
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It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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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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If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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Went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
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Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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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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