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I Find The Big Bang, Really Quite Fascinating. I Mean, Here You Have All These Highfalutin Scientists And They're Saying It Was This Gigantic Explosion And Everything Came Into Perfect Order. Now These Are The Same Scientists That Go Around Touting The Second Law Of Thermodynamics, Which Is Entropy, Which Says That Things Move Toward A State Of Disorganization.

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I Find The Big

Benjamin Carson

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I Find The Big Bang, Really Quite Fascinating. I Mean, Here You Have All These Highfalutin Scientists And They're Saying It Was This Gigantic Explosion And Everything Came Into Perfect Order. Now These Are The Same Scientists That Go Around Touting The Second Law Of Thermodynamics, Which Is Entropy, Which Says That Things Move Toward A State Of Disorganization.

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Doing What You Want

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I'm Referring To Anybody Who Is Trying To Interfere With The Process Of Interfering With What The Will Of The People Are. It Is The People Who Should Make The Decision. And Whoever That Decision Is, The Establishment Needs To Get Behind Them And Push Them, Not Be Going In A Different Direction, There Is No Way That Can Be A Successful Startegy No Matter What You Believe Or Who Is The Candidate.

I Am Asking The Congress, Which Represents The People, To Declare A War On Isis So That We Can Begin The Process Of Excising That Cancer And Begin The Healing Process, And Bring Peace, Prosperity, And Safety Back To America.

Even If Somebody Disagrees With You, Their Life Is Still Valuable.

There's A False Narrative That Only The Political Class Has The Wisdom And The Ability To Be Commander-in- Chief. But If You Go Back And You Study The Design Of Our Country, It Was Really Designed For The Citizen Statesman.

If You Hear How Wonderful You Are Often Enough, You Begin To Believe It, No Matter How You Try To Resist It.

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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.

I Don't Worry About Things That Aren't Important.

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Self Confidence

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You Pray For Yourself And Just Ask God To Give You Strength.

Praying For You

[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.

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.

It Doesn't Matter If You Come From The Inner City. People Who Fail In Life Are People Who Find Lots Of Excuses. It's Never Too Late For A Person To Recognize That They Have Potential In Themselves.

Some People Say You're Weak Because, You Know, You're Not Loud And You're Not Boisterous And You're Not Rude. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, Look And See What I've Done. And That Speaks Volumes About Strength.

Politics Is Corrupting The American Judicial System In Much The Same Way The Judicial System Was Corrupted In Nazi Germany.

Reading Is The Way Out Of Ignorance, And The Road To Achievement.

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.

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

Freedom Of Speech

And I Know You’re Not Supposed To Say ‘nazi Germany,’ But I Don’t Care About Political Correctness. You Know, You Had A Government Using Its Tools To Intimidate The Population. We Now Live In A Society Where People Are Afraid To Say What They Actually Believe.

Our Country Since Its Inception Has Been At War, Every 15 Or 20 Years. But The War That We Are Fighting Against Radical Islamist Jihadists Is One That We Must Win. Our Very Existence Is Dependent Upon That.

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.

Maybe That's How I Learned To Handle My Deep Hurt - By Forgetting.

No One Is Ever Better Off With Dictators But There Comes A Time You Know, When You're On An Airplane, They Always Say, "in Case Of An Emergency Oxygen Masks Will Drop Down. Put Yours On First And Then Administer Help To Your Neighbor." We Need Oxygen Right Now.

We Create Our Own Destiny By The Way We Do Things. We Have To Take Advantage Of Opportunities And Be Responsible For Our Choices.

Because 9/11 Is An Isolated Incident. Things That Are Isolated Issues As Opposed To Things That Fundamentally Change The United Sates Of America And Shift Power From The People To The Government. That Is A Huge Shift. You Have To Take A Long-term Look At Something That Fundamentally Changes The Power Structure Of America.

I Believe That Things Are Always Going To Work Out, Even If In The Beginning It Doesn't Look Like They Are Working Out. I Know In The Long Run They Are Going To Work Out, And It's Going To Be Fine.

Knowledge Makes People Special. Knowledge Enriches Life Itself.

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.

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

I Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another.

If We Can Redefine Marriage As Between Two Men Or Two Women Or Any Other Way Based On Social Pressures As Opposed To Between A Man And A Woman, We Will Continue To Redefine It In Any Way That We Wish, Which Is A Slippery Slope With A Disastrous Ending, As Witnessed In The Dramatic Fall Of The Roman Empire.

I Came To Realize That If People Could Make Me Angry They Could Could Control Me. Why Should I Give Someone Else Such Power Over My Life?

I First Wanted To Be A Psychiatrist. I Decided Against That In Medical School When I Discovered That Psychiatrists Didn't, In Reality, Do What They Did On Tv.

Occasionally I Talk With People Who See Doctors As People Who Do Nothing But Give Of Themselves And Never Receive From Anyone Else - Especially Not From Their Patients. That Is Totally False. The Longer I Remain In My Profession, The More I Realize How Much I Receive From Those Who Come To Me For Help.

There Are A Group Of People Who Would Like To Silence Everybody And Have Everyone Go Along To Get Along, But That’s Not Going To Be Very Helpful For Us In The Long Run In Terms Of Solving Our Problems, And Someone Has To Be Courageous Enough To Actually Stand Up To The Bullies.

As Far As The Command Centers Are Concerned In Raqqa And To A Lesser Degree Mosul, Cut Those Off. Do The Same Kind Of Thing That We Did With Sinjar , Working With Our Embedded Special Forces With The Kurds, Shut Off The Supply Route, Soften Them Up, Then We Go In With Specials Ops Followed By Our Air Force To Take Them Over. Those Are Things That Work.

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.

She [hillary Clinton] Is The Epitome Of The Progressive - The Secular Progressive Movement. And She Counts On The Fact That People Are Uninformed, The Alinsky Model, Taking Advantage Of Useful Idiots.

The Roman Empire Was Very, Very Much Like Us. They Lost Their Moral Core, Their Sense Of Values In Terms Of Who They Were. And After All Of Those Things Converged Together, They Just Went Right Down The Tubes Very Quickly.

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

We'll Always Be Safe In Jesus Christ If We Place Our Faith In The Lord.

But, You Know, We Have These Entrenched Entities - And I'm Talking About Both Republicans And Democrats - Who Believe That When You're Elected To Office, You Become Some Kind Of Member Of The Aristocracy, And That Anyone Who Challenges You Is Attacking You And Is Unpatriotic. This Is Foolishness.

Let's Say Somebody Were [in The White House] And They Wanted To Destroy This Nation. I Would Create Division Among The People, Encourage A Culture Of Ridicule For Basic Morality And The Principles That Made And Sustained The Country, Undermine The Financial Stability Of The Nation, And Weaken And Destroy The Military. It Appears Coincidentally That Those Are The Very Things That Are Happening Right Now.

People All Over The Nation Are Starved For Honesty And Common Sense.

Bullies Do Whatever They Can Get Away With And Keep Pushing Boundaries Until They Meet Resistance.

Pushing Boundaries

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