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I Always Think It Is Kind Of Funny When It Comes To Wisdom, And I Say God Has A Sense Of Humor, Because My Middle Name Is Solomon, And I Love The Book Of Proverbs Which Is Written By Solomon, And I Have Read From The Book Of Proverbs To Start And End Every Day Since I Was 14.

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I Always Think It Is Kind Of Funny When It Comes To Wisdom, And I Say God Has A Sense Of Humor, Because My Middle Name Is Solomon, And I Love The Book Of Proverbs Which Is Written By Solomon, And I Have Read From The Book Of Proverbs To Start And End Every Day Since I Was 14.

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Self Confidence

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When We Are Confronted By Failure And Mistakes, We Can Leave Them Behind And Go On With Our Lives.

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Surrendering To Fear And Allowing Ourselves To Be Paralyzed By Peril Isn't Something Most Of Us Can Afford To Do.

I Think People Actually Notice Sometimes The Content Of What One Is Saying Rather Than The Decibel Level At Which He Says It. And A Lot Of Times When People Don't Have A Lot To Say, They Increase The Volume.

Through Hard Work, Perseverance And A Faith In God, You Can Live Your Dreams.

Why Should I Give Someone Else Such Power Over My Life?

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.

Resist This War On God, Freedom Of Religion And Freedom Of Speech.

Freedom Of Speech

We Have Much Better Policies Than The Democrats Do.

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.

Intelligent 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.

I Think Americans Is A Very Special Nation That Was Created So That People Could Be Free. And They Could Be Free To Believe What They Wanted. They Could Be Free To Work As Hard As They Wanted, Knowing That Their Labor Would Accrue To Them And To Their Family, That There Wouldn't Be A Lot Of People Impinging Upon Their Freedom And Telling Them What They Had To Do, And That It Would Be A Nation That Was Representative Of The People, And That It Would Have A Government That Was Representative Of The People Rather Than One That Tried To Rule The People.

It's Very Difficult To Speak To A Large Group Of People These Days And Not Offend Someone. I Know People Walk Around With Their Feelings On Their Shoulders Waiting For You To Say Something - Ahh - Did You Hear That? And They Can't Hear Anything Else You Say. The Pc Police Are Out In Force At All Times.

I Do Not Want To Get Rid Of The Safety Net, I Want To Get Rid Of Dependency.

I Know A Lot Of People In Washington Would Say, Well, You Know, Indigent People Can't Manage Their Health Savings Account. They're Too Stupid. But They're Not Too Stupid. Somebody Has A Diabetic Foot Ulcer, They Learn Very Quickly Not To Go The Emergency Room Where It Costs Five Times More To Take Care Of It. They Go To The Clinic.

I've Gotten Literally Thousands Of Contacts From People Across The Country - And The Most Poignant Ones Being Elderly People - Who Said I Had Given Up On America And I Was Just Waiting To Die.

I Like The Idea Of A Proportional Tax. That Way You Pay According To Your Ability.

The Government Is Supposed To Respond To The Will Of The People. Not Dictate To The People What They Are Doing.

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.

It's Very Important For People To Know Themselves And Understand What Their Value System Is, Because If You Don't Know What Your Value System Is, Then You Don't Know What Risks Are Worth Taking And Which Ones Are Worth Avoiding.

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.

By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

Education Does Not Necessarily Make One Wise?

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We Need To Start Thinking About The Needs Of The American People Before We Go And Solve Everybody Else's Problems.

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I've Been Fortunate Enough To Travel To 58 Different Countries And I Thank God Everyday That I Was Born In This Country. The Most Exceptional Country That The World Has Ever Known. And I Want To Make Sure That We Preserve That Exceptionalism For The Next Generation.

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Call It Whatever You Need To Call It To Make It Feel Good To You. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, I've Been In Lots Of Place Growing Up And Listening To People Tell Great Tales Of Sexual Conquest. It Is An Immature Thing To Do -

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.

In My Own Personal Life, God Plays A Great Role In The Risk, Because I Pray Before I Go Into The Operating Room For Every Case, And I Ask Him To Give Me Wisdom, To Help Me To Know What To Do - And Not Only For Operating, But For Everything.

Maybe That's The Problem. But Whether They've Heard It Of Not. The Issue Is The Train That Is Going Off The Cliff. After We Save The Country, After We Keep The Train From Going Off The Cliff, I Would Welcome, Quite Frankly, A Discussion Of Morality In This Country. I Think It Would Be A Wonderful Thing If We Bring Back Our Judeo-christian Values Once Again. I Think It Could Do Nothing But Help Us. I Would Be All In Favor Of That.

We Should Be Concerned Not Only About The Health Of Individual Patients, But Also The Health Of Our Entire Society.

Don't Let Anyone Turn You Into A Slave. You're A Slave If You Let The Media Tell You That Sports And Entertainment Are More Important Than Developing Your Brain.

Health Care Is One-sixth Of Our Economy. If The Government Can Control That, They Can Control Just About Everything. 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.

Economic Models

I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think What Makes Sense.

Why Should We Be Letting People Smoke Their Cigars In Their Comfortable Chairs In Raqqa?

You've Promised That If We Come To You And Ask Something In Faith, That You'll Do It.

Do We Have A Brain? Than Use It. It's All You Need To Overcome A Problem. That's The Secret. That's My Simple But Powerful Prescription For Life, Love, And Success In A Dangerous World.

Creativity Is Just Learning To Do Something With A Different Perspective.

'why Risk?' I Responded. 'it Should Be, Why Not To Risk?'

I'm Convinced That We All Harvest The Fruits Of Our Labors.

Obviously, Discipline Is Necessary For Children. Training Is Necessary For Children. Just Like If You Want To Train A Vine, You Have To Apply Physical Manipulation To Get It To Go Where You Want It To Go, But As It Learns, Then You Don't Have To Do That.

Just Because Somebody Happens To Disagree With You About Something Doesn't Mean That They Become Your Mortal Enemy And That You Should Try To Destroy Them And Destroy Their Life And Destroy Their Family.

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.

When I Look At The Human Brain I'm Still In Awe Of It. Every Single Time You Lift Off The Bone And Open The Durra And There It Is - The Human Brain, The Thing That Gives A Person A Personality, That Distinguishes Each One Of Us, That There Could Be More Than 6 Billion Of Us Here On This Planet With Brains That Look The Same, But Each One Being Distinctly Different Because Of What Is Going On In That Thing. I'll Never Get Over My Awe Of That.

The Point Is, We Can Decry The Dangers We Face Or Ignore Them Or Even Allow Ourselves To Be Paralyzed By Fear.

You Don't Have To Be A Brain Surgeon To Be A Valuable Person. You Become Valuable Because Of The Knowledge That You Have. And That Doesn't Mean You Won't Fail Sometimes. The Important Thing Is To Keep Trying.

If You're A Christian And You're Running For President And You Want To Make This Into A Theocracy, I'm Not Going To Support You.

My Favorite Subject Was Recess. Fortunately For Me, I Had A Mother Who Believed I Was Smart.

Favorite Subject

If I Was Trying To Destroy This Country, What I Would Do Is Find A Way To Drive Wedges Between All The People, Drive The Debt To An Unsustainable Level, And Then Step Off The Stage As A World Leader And Let Our Enemies Increase While We Decreased Our Capacity As A Military Person. And That's What [hillary Clinton] Doing.

It's Very Difficult To Speak To A Large Group Of People These Days And Not Offend Someone.

Uninformed People Can Be Easily Manipulated.

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.

Joseph Built The Pyramids In Order To Store Grain. Now, All The Archeologists Think That They Were Made For The Pharaoh's Graves. But, You Know, It Would Have To Be Something Awfully Big, When You Stop And Think About It - And I Don't Think It Would Just Disappear Over The Course Of Time - To Store That Much Grain.

That's The Only Way We're Going To Get Through These Programs. That Is True Compassion. Having People Become Dependent On Others Is Not Compassion At All.

Quite Frankly, Having An Uninformed Populace Works Extremely Well, Particularly When You Have A Media That Doesn't Understand Its Responsibility And Feels More Like It's An Arm Of A Political Party. They Can Really Take Advantage Of An Uninformed Populace.

We Have To Destroy Their Caliphate Because That Gives Them Legitimacy To Go Ahead With The Global Jihad. We Have To Take Their Energy Because They Are - Isis Is The Richest Terrorist Organization There Is.

The Culture In Which We Live Stresses Looking Out For Number One. Without Adopting Such A Self-centered Value System, We Can Demand The Best Of Ourselves While We Are Extending Our Hands To Help Others.

[donald Trump] Is Talked About Enormous Loss That We've Had In This Country By Allowing Radical Islamic Extremists To Run Rampant Without Having A Coherent Plan For How To Destroy Them, Not Just To Contain Them, But To Destroy Them. And The Implications Of That For All Families Who Are Losing Service Members Is Significant.

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