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.
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 would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are 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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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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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 set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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