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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.

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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.

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A Truly Moral Nation Enacts Policies That Encourage Personal Responsibility And Discourage Self-destructive Behavior By Not Subsidizing People Who Live Irresponsibly And Make Poor Choices.

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.

By Reading So Much, My Vocabulary Automatically Improved Along With My Comprehension.

Education Is A Fundamental Principle Of What Made America A Success. We Can't Afford To Throw Any Young People Away.

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.

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

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Use Pma: Positive Mental Actitude.

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There's No Question That As Science, Knowledge And Technology Advance, That We Will Attempt To Do More Significant Things. And There's No Question That We Will Always Have To Temper Those Things With Ethics.

Significant Things

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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'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.

When I Entered High School I Was An A-student, But Not For Long. I Wanted The Fancy Clothes. I Wanted To Hang Out With The Guys. I Went From Being An A-student To A B-student To A C-student, But I Didn't Care. I Was Getting The High Fives And The Low Fives And The Pats On The Back. I Was Cool.

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Christian Inspirational

What A Wonderful Thing Is To Be Able To Contribute To The Restoration Of Someone's Health. It's Not Only A Feeling That I'm Worth Something, But That I Have Something To Contribute.

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."

When Asked By Glenn Beck If People Should Be Allowed To Own Semi-automatic Weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson Said: “it Depends On Where You Live. I Think If You Live In The Midst Of A Lot Of People, And I’m Afraid That That Semi-automatic Weapon Is Going To Fall Into The Hands Of A Crazy Person, I Would Rather You Not Have It.

People Are Simply Not Willing To Look At Their Problems Honestly And Admit That They Have Problems.

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.

Do Your Best And Let God Do The Rest.

I Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another. You Know, There Are Some Of The Things That I Say That Probably Would Be Considered Very Much Non-conservative. But I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think: What Makes Sense? What's Going To Help The American People? What's Going To Give Them What They Need? Not Only In Health Care But In Terms Of Jobs, In Terms Of Education, In Terms Of A Whole Host Of Issues.

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

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

Trust And Faith

Law Officials Put Their Lives On The Line Every Single Day For Us, And I Think We Also Owe Them A Degree Of Respect.

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.

Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

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.

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

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

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

Now If You Not Only Support Them Through That Pregnancy, But Now Provide Childcare For Them So They Can Go Back To School And Get Their Ged Or Their Associate's Degree Or Bachelor's Degree Or Their Master's Degree, Learn How To Take Care Of Themselves, Teach Their Baby How To Take Care Of Themselves So That You Break The Cycle Of The Dependency.

I Just Happen To Believe That People Are Not Stupid.

We Are Not Like Dogs Who Are Kind Of "what Am I Going To Eat Today? Oh, There Is A Rabbit; I Am Going To Go Chase It."

I Was Perhaps The Worst Student You Have Ever Seen. You Know, I Thought I Was Stupid, All My Classmates Thought I Was Stupid, So There Was General Agreement.

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

I Have No Problem Whatsoever With Allowing Gay People To Live As They Please, As Long As They Don't Try To Impose Their Lifestyle On Everyone Else.

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

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.

By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

We've Gotten Into This - This Mindset Of Fighting Politically Correct Wars. There Is No Such Thing As A Politically Correct War. 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.

We Should Use Our Economic Power In Lots Of Different Ways. I Think We Can Use That In Order To Keep [vladimir] Putin Contained, Because He Is A One-horse Show. Energy. And We Have An Abundance Of Energy, But We Have Archaic Energy Exportation Rules. We Need To Get Rid Of Those, Allow Ourselves To Really Make Europe Dependent On Us And Other Parts Of The World Dependent On Us For Energy. Put Him Back In His Little Box Where He Belongs.

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.

You Need An Incredible Amount Of Self-confidence To Go Digging Around In Someone's Brain.

Self Confidence

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.

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.

If We Make Every Attempt To Increase Out Knowledge In Order To Use It For Human Good, It Will Make A Difference In Us And In Our World.

It's Ridiculous That Our Solar System, Not To Mention The Universe Outside Of That, Is Extraordinarily Well Organized, To The Point Where We Can Predict 70 Years Away When A Comet Is Coming.

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.

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.

I Was Asked By An Npr Reporter Once, Why Don't I Talk About Race That Often. I Said It's Because I'm A Neurosurgeon. And She Thought That Was A Strange Response. And You Say - I Said, You See, When I Take Someone To The Operating Room, I'm Actually Operating On The Thing That Makes Them Who They Are. The Skin Doesn't Make Them Who They Are.

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