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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.

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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.

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I Now Had Enough Faith Not Only To Believe There Were Answer, But To Feel Certain That Those Answers Would Become Apparent At Some Point In The Future.

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.

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Building Things

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

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

Favorite Subject

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Corporations Are Not In Business To Be Social-welfare Organizations; They Are There To Make Money.

If I Speak In The Tongues Of Men And Of Angles, But Am Note Nice, I Am Only A Resounding Gong Or A Clanging Cymbal. If I Have The Gift Of Prophecy And Can Fathom All Mysteries And All Knowledge, And If I Have A Faith That Can Move Mountains, But Am Not Nice, I Am Nothing. If I Give All I Posses To The Poor And Surrender My Body To The Flames, But Am Not Nice, I Gain Nothing.

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Proportionality

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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.

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Remembers Everything

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The Thing That Is Probably Most Important Is Having A Brain, And To Be Able To Figure Things Out And Learn Things Very Rapidly.

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.

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

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.

As I Was Growing Up, People Were Always Trying To Talk About Their Sexual Conquests, Trying To Make Themselves Appear Like A Cassanova. I'm Surprised You Haven't Heard That, I Really Am.

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 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.

Let`s Teach Those People That When They Go To Work, They Get Skills, They Meet People, They Get Opportunities, They Get To Climb The Ladder, They Get Much Better Off Than The Person Who`s Just Sitting At Home Receiving Those Things.

A Lot Of People Who Go Into Prison Go Into Prison Straight - And When They Come Out, They're Gay.

Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman. No Group, Be They Gays, Be They Nambla, Be They People Who Believe In Bestiality, It Doesn’t Matter What They Are - They Don’t Get To Change The Definition.

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.

We Turned Our Back On Israel, Our Ally. You Know, And A Situation Like That, Of Course [barack]obama's Not Going To Be Able To Do Anything. I Would Shore Up Our Military First, Because If You Don't Get The Military Right, Nothing Else Is Going To Work.

To Think Big And To Use Our Talents Doesn't Mean We Won't Have Difficulties Along The Way. We Will - We All Do... If We Choose To See The Obstacles In Our Path As Barriers, We Stop Trying. "we Can't Win," We Moan. "they Won't Let Us Win."

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.

You Have To Try, You Have To Try Everything You Can.

Always Give Your Best And Try To Figure Out How To Do An Even Better Job.

If We Set Our Priority "the Removal Of All Risk", We'll Soon Have Sterile, Stagnant, And Unstimulating Learning Environments.

Our Schools Too Often Want To Shut People Up So They Can't Talk About Real Solutions. People Who Think Differently Tend To Clam Up Because They Think Something Is Wrong With Their Ideas.

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.

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.

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

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.

So We [americans] Have A History A Taking Care Of Each Other. Now, For Some Strange Reason Starting Sort Of In The 20's With Woodrow Wilson, The Government Started Getting Involved In Everything.

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

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.

Every Person Is Endowed With God-given Abilities, And We Must Cultivate Every Ounce Of Talent We Have In Order To Maintain Our Pinnacle Position In The World.

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.

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.

I Wish The Government Would Read The Constitution. I Think That Would Probably Help Quite A Bit. And Maybe They Did Read It And Maybe They Got Confused When They Read The Preamble Which Says One Of The Duties Is To Promote The General Welfare.

There Is So Much Potential Out There In Young People And They Aren't Getting The Right Information Or Being Encouraged In The Right Ways. This Is Our Duty As A Society.

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