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I'm The Only One To Separate Siamese Twins.the Only One To Operate On Babies While They Were Still In Mother's Womb, The Only One To Take Out Half Of A Brain.but I'm Very Hopeful That I'm Not The Only One Who's Willing To Pick Up The Baton Of Freedom, Because Freedom Is Not Free, And We Must Fight For It Every Day. Every One Of Us Must Fight For It, Because We're Fighting For Our Children And The Next Generation.

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I'm The Only One To Separate Siamese Twins.the Only One To Operate On Babies While They Were Still In Mother's Womb, The Only One To Take Out Half Of A Brain.but I'm Very Hopeful That I'm Not The Only One Who's Willing To Pick Up The Baton Of Freedom, Because Freedom Is Not Free, And We Must Fight For It Every Day. Every One Of Us Must Fight For It, Because We're Fighting For Our Children And The Next Generation.

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The Key Is To Cut Out The Middleman And Empower Both Doctor And Patient With Information About What Things Cost.

I Never Had Money For Anything. But I Tell You What Did Really Work - Books. Between The Covers Of Those Books I Could Go Anyplace, I Could Be Anybody, I Could Do Anything.

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I Always Pray Before Any Of The Operation. I Think God Help Me Know What To Do.

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The Reason That I Proposed Health Savings Accounts For Everybody Starting At Birth, Is Because You Very Quickly Accumulate An Amount Of Money That You Can Use For Your Interactions With Those Health Care Providers.

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This Is A Country For, Of, And By The People Not For, Of, And By The Government. If We Turn It Over To Them We Cannot Complain About What They're Doing Because This Is A Natural Course Of Men And We Have To Hold Their Feet To The Fire.

If You Go And Talk To Most People, They Mean Well But They Don't Have Much Of A Breadth On Education, Of Knowledge Of Understanding What The Real Issues Are And Therefore They Listen To Pundits On Television Who Tell Them What They Are Supposed To Think And They Keep Repeating That Until Pretty Soon They Say, 'oh, Well That Must Be True.'

Say Your Prayers. And I'll Say Mine. Because I Really Think It Helps.

We Need To Be Willing To Stand Up And Speak Up For What We Believe.

A Good Surgeon Doesn't Just Concentrate On Technical Ability, But Also On The Appropriateness Of What You're Doing.

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By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

Marriage Is A Very Sacred Institution And Should Not Be Degraded By Allowing Every Other Type Of Relationship To Be Made Equivalent To It.

So After A While, If People Won't Accept Your Excuses, You Stop Looking For Them.

We Have To Take Isis Oil, Shut Down All Of The Mechanisms Whereby They Can Disperse Money Because They Go After Disaffected Individuals From All Over The Place, And They're Able To Pay Them.

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

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

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.

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If We Develop In-depth Knowledge, It Will Enable Us To Give Our Best To Others And Help To Make A Better World.

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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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.

You Know If There Is A Rabid Dog Running Around Your Neighborhood, You're Probably Not Going To Assume Something Good About That Dog, And You're Probably Gonna Put Your Children Out Of The Way. Doesn't Mean That You Hate All Dogs By Any Stretch Of The Imagination.

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Proportionality

I Always Say If God Didn't Allow Any Bad Things To Happen, We Would Already Be In Heaven. And We Are Not There. That's Where Trust And Faith Comes In. You Just Say, "lord, I Don't Understand It. But One Thing I Do Know Is That You Understand It And That You Are In Control And I Trust You."

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

In General I Was A Good Kid. It Usually Took A Lot To Make Me Mad. But Once I Reached The Boiling Point, I Lost All Rational Control. Totally Without Thinking, When My Anger Was Aroused, I Grabbed The Nearest Brick, Rock, Or Stick To Bash Someone. It Was As If I Had No Conscious Will In The Matter.

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.

What We Have To Stop And Think About Is That We Have Weakened Ourselves Militarily To Such An Extent That If Affects All Of Our Military Policies.

God Has Opened Many Doors Of Opportunity Throughout My Lifetime, But I Believe The Greatest Of Those Doors Was Allowing Me To Be Born In The United States Of America.

I Feel Very Blessed To Have Been Involved With Some Of The Most Complex Surgical Procedures In The History Of The World.

I Could Easily Have Decided That Life Was Cruel, That Being Black Meant Everything Was Stacked Against Me.

I Think It's A Fallacy That Only People In Elected Office Can Come Up With Solutions That Solve Our Problems. I Just Think Maybe There's A Different Paradigm.

The More I Learn About The Human Body, Our Environment, And The Universe, The More It Increases My Faith.

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

You Have Yourself To Blame.

What Is Important - What I Consider Success - Is That We Make A Contribution To Our World.

I Serve God, And My Purpose Is To Please Him, And If God Be For You, Who Can Be Against You?

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.

If We Recognize Our Talents And Use Them Appropriately, And Choose A Field That Uses Those Talents, We Will Rise To The Top Of Our Field.

I Would Love Us To Bring Back Our Juedo-christian Values And Begin To Teach Those Things, At A Time Other Than A Political Election.

We Get Out Of Life What We Put Into It. The Way We Treat Others Is The Way We Ourselves Get Treated.

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

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.

As A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, I Frequently Faced Life And Death Situations, And Had To Come Up With The Right Diagnosis, The Right Plan, And Execute That Plan Frequently With Other Colleagues.

Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

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

I Hope We, The American People, Can Come To The Understanding That We Are Not Each Other's Enemies. The Enemies Are Those Who Are Stoking The Flames Of Division, Trying To Divide Us Into Every Category.

One Of The Reasons Surgeons Have So Much Trouble Separating Siamese Twins Is That Nobody Gets To Do Many Of Them. On The Table, The Anatomy Is So Different From Normal, That You're Constantly Trying To Figure Out, 'can I Cut This? Does This Wire Lead To What?' It's Like Trying To Defuse A Bomb.

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

America Need A Significantly Changed Taxation System. And The One That I've Advocated Is Based On Tithing, Because I Think God Is A Pretty Fair Guy. If You Give Me A Tithe, It Doesn't Matter How Much You Make. If You've Had A Bumper Crop, You Don't Owe Me Triple Tithes. And If You've Had No Crops At All, You Don't Owe Me No Tithes. So There Must Be Something Inherently Fair About It.

Everybody Has Barriers And Obstacles. If You Look At Them As Containing Fences That Don't Allow You To Advance, Then You're Going To Be A Failure. If You Look At Them As Hurdles That Strengthen You Each Time You Go Over One, Then You're Going To Be A Success.

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.

We Have A War On Women, Race Wars. Income Wars, Age Wars, Religious Wars, Anything You Can Imagine. A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand It. And It's Going To Be Up To Us, To People, To Begin The Focus On The Positive Things, On The Things That We Have In Common And Stop Listening To Those Who Are Stoking The Fires Of Division.

If 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.all We Would Have To Do Is Be Willing To Provide Them With Some Weaponry, Some Defensive Weaponry.

We Have The Purveyors Of Hatred Who Take Every Single Incident Between People Of Two Races And Try To Make A Race War Out Of It, And Drive Wedges Into People. And This Does Not Need To Be Done.

I Would Prefer That In The Republican Party, We Not Engage In Trying To Destroy Each Other, Because All That Does Is Hand The Election Over To The Democrats. I Don't Know Why There Is This Penchant For Snatching Defeat Out Of The Jaws Of Victory, They'll Find Some Way To Destroy Themselves. And It Is Just Maddening To See It Happening.

The Mind Controls So Much Of The Body. We Are Much More Than Flesh And Blood; We Are Complex Systems. Patients Do Better When They Have Faith That They're Going To Do Better. That's Why I Always Tell My Patients And Their Families Not To Neglect Their Prayers. There's Nobody I Don't Say That To.

Having Grown Up In Dire Poor, The Thing That I Hated The Most In Life Was Poverty.

The Left, Of Course, Will Say Carson Doesn't Believe In The Geneva Convention, Carson Doesn't Believe In Fighting Stupid Wars. And - And What We Have To Remember Is We Want To Utilize The Tremendous Intellect That We Have In The Military To Win Wars.

What The Muslim Brotherhood Said In The Explanatory Memorandum That Was Discovered During The Holy Land Foundation Trial Was That, "they Will Take Advantage Of Our Pc Attitude To Get Us".

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.

I Actually Don't Think That I'm That Much Smarter Than Anybody Else. It's Just That I Frequently Just Seem To Know What To Do, And I Think That's Wisdom.

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