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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.

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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.

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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.

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I Don't Believe That Expressing Your Opinion, Regardless Of Who Is There, Is Being Rude. And It's A Shame That We've Reached A Level In Our Country Where We Think That You Don't Have The Right To Put Your Opinion Out There.

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

There Is A Tendency Of People To Try To Make You Believe Only A Few People Are Smart. As A Brain Surgeon, I Know Better Than That.

I Wouldn't Go To War Over Ukraine.

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

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Everyone In The World Worth Being Nice To. Because God Never Creates Inferior Human Beings, Each Person Deserves Respect And Dignity.

I Always Say If God Didn't Allow Any Bad Things To Happen We Would Already Be In Heaven, And We Are Not There.

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

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If We Allow Ourselves To Dwell On Negatives, On Hurts, On Mistreatments, We Will Be Negative Thinkers. So Be Open To Positive Thinking, Think Big!

Positive Thinking

If You Don't Have Anything Useful To Say Then You Attack People. If You Feel That Your House Of Cards Has Been Discovered And Is Starting To Come Unraveled, You Become Very Desperate. 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.

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."

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

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.

These Are Just Things That We Don't Know, And That's Where Trust And Faith Come In.

Trust And Faith

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

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

It's A Failure Only If You Don't Get Anything Out Of It, Thomas Edison Said He Knew 999 Ways That A Light Bulb Did Not Work; Yet We Have Lights Today.

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

The Truth Is, The Liberal Policies Of The Elite Class Have Done Little To Improve The Lot Of Those Who Depend So Much On Them. In America's Black Communities, Where The Goodies Have Been Flowing For Decades, Rather Than Seeing Improvements In Terms Of Upward Mobility, We Are Seeing Deteriorating Family Structure, Increases In Violent Crimes, Growing Poverty, And Growing Dependence. Even With Such A Blatant Record Of Failure, There Is Slavish Devotion To The Elite Class Who Continue To Promise More Goodies In Exchange For Votes.

I Began To Realize That Poverty Was Really More Of A Choice Than Anything Else And That I Could Change That. And It Just Really Depended On How Hard I Wanted To Work.

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.

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

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.

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.

Success Is Determined Not By Whether Or Not You Face Obstacles, But By Your Reaction To Them. And If You Look At These Obstacles As A Containing Fence, They Become Your Excuse For Failure. If You Look At Them As A Hurdle, Each One Strengthens You For The Next.

No Matter How Good You Are At Planning, The Pressure Never Goes Away. So I Don't Fight It. I Feed Off It. I Turn Pressure Into Motivation To Do My Best.

Do Your Best And Let God Do The Rest.

Our Children Need To See And Hear About More Black Role Models In Many Fields So They Can Make Better Choices.

I Think Of Success As Reaching Beyond Ourselves And Helping Other People In Specific Ways.

Our Strength As A Nation Comes In Our Unity. We Are The United States Of America, Not The Divided States. And Those Who Want To Divide Us Are Trying To Divide Us, And We Shouldn't Let Them Do It.

(i'm) The Only One To Take Out Half A Brain, Although You Would Think, If You Go To Washington, That Someone Had Beat Me To It.

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.

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

If You Don't Accept Excuses, Then People Will Stop Giving Them And Will Start Looking For Solutions.

So If There Were A Container Of Contaminated Urine, And Somehow It Managed To Find Its Way To Someplace A Lot Of Damage Could Be Done. Someone Comes Up To A Lab Worker. He Knows He’s Got The Urine. ‘how Would You Like To Have A Million Dollars?’ … Such Things Have Been Known To Happen.

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.

Through The Use Of Books I Had The Whole World At My Feet: Could Travel Anywhere, Meet Anyone, And Do Anything.

By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

Every Time I Am Looking Into The Depths Of Somebody's Brain, I'm Thinking, 'this Is What Makes A Person Who They Are. That Structure Contains Memories. Everything That They've Ever Experienced Is Right In There.'

If We Don't Get The Military Right Nothing Else Matters.

If We Acknowledge Our Need For God, He Will Help Us.

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

No Matter Who You Are,no Matter What You Do-do Not Be Too Big For God.

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

Happiness Doesn't Result From What We Get, But From What We Give.

Christian Inspirational

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.

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.

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