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We Don't Know The End From The Beginning The Way That God Does. So When A Child Dies, Sure That Is Incredibly Difficult, And When You Are The Parent, There Is Almost Nothing Anybody Can Say To You That Makes Any Sense.

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We Don't Know The End From The Beginning The Way That God Does. So When A Child Dies, Sure That Is Incredibly Difficult, And When You Are The Parent, There Is Almost Nothing Anybody Can Say To You That Makes Any Sense.

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Trust And Faith

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Now, As Far As Monitoring Is Concerned, What My Point Is, We Need To Make Sure That Any Place - I Don't Care Whether It's A Mosque, A School, A Supermarket, A Theater, You Know It Doesn't Matter. If There Are A Lot Of People Getting There And Engaging In Radicalizing Activities Then We Need To Be Suspicious Of It.

You Know, Many People Have Said That I'm On The Edge And I'm Maverick For Some Of The Big Operations That I've Done. I'm Not At All. I Pray; I Ask God To Give Me Wisdom, 'should I Do It?', Guidance In Terms Of How To Do It, Who To Consult With. All Those Kind Of Things Are Incredibly Important.

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

In Our Culture, Security Has Become An Obsession.

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Praying For You

Reading Activates And Exercises The Mind. Reading Forces The Mind To Discriminate. From The Beginning, Readers Have To Recognize Letters Printed On The Page, Make Them Into Words, The Words Into Sentences, And The Sentences Into Concepts. Reading Pushes Us To Use Our Imagination And Makes Us More Creatively Inclined.

If We Would Spend On Education Half The Amount Of Money That We Currently Lavish On Sports And Entertainment, We Could Provide Complete And Free Education For Every Student In This Country.

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

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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.

Cancer Can Be Attacked Directly By Metabolic Enzymes And Then Be Assisted By The Enzyme Diet Programme. The Second Greatest Cancer Breakthrough Of The 20th Century Is The Metabolic Organic Effect On Malignant Tumours Of Correcting The Body Fluid Ph To A Non-acidic Ph 7.1 To 7.5. A Neutral Ph 7.0 Resists Cancer Formation. An Acid Body Fluid Ph Of 6.44 And Below Permits Tumours To Biochemically Become Malignant. At Ph 7.5 Cancer May Become Inactive; At 8.5 Tumours May Disintegrate.

I Said Ted Cruz Has Been Lying Because If You Say Something That Isn't True, And You Say It Over And Over Again, And You Know That It's Not True, There's No Other Word For It.

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The Outstanding Doctor Constantly Emphasized The Humanitarian Aspect Of Medical Care.

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You Have The Ability To Choose Which Way You Want To Go. You Have To Believe Great Things Are Going To Happen In Your Life. Do Everything You Can - Prepare, Pray And Achieve - To Make It Happen.

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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.

Here's A Nation, One Of The Founding Pillars Was Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Expression. And Yet, We Have Imposed Upon People Restrictions On What They Can Say, On What They Can Think. And The Media Is The Largest Proponent Of This, Crucifying People Who Say Things Really Quite Innocently.

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.

Being A Doctor At Johns Hopkins Does Not Make Me Any Better In God's Sight Than The Individual Who Has Not Had The Opportunity To Gain Such An Education But Who Still Works Hard.

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

I'm A Part Of The Gop And Let Me Tell You What My Stance Is. My Stance Is That, We The People Have The Responsibility To Take Care Of The Indigent In Our Society. It's Not The Government's Job. You Can Read The Constitution All You Want, It Never Says That It Is The Government's Job And I Think Where We've Gotten Confused.

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.

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.

I've Been Fortunate Enough To Travel To 58 Different Countries And I Thank God Everyday That I Was Born In This Country. The Most Exceptional Country That The World Has Ever Known. And I Want To Make Sure That We Preserve That Exceptionalism For The Next Generation.

Do You Have A Brain? Then You Can Think Your Way Out Of It. The Reason We Have Brains Is So We Can Figure Out How To Do Things.

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

Of Course, No Religious Test For The Presidency - Every Faith Adds To Our National Character.

A Lot Of People Simply Don't Realize Their Potential Because They're Just So Risk Adverse. They Just Don't Want To Take The Risk.

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

We Have To Destroy Their Caliphate Because That Gives Them Legitimacy To Go Ahead With The Global Jihad. We Have To Take Their Energy Because They Are - Isis Is The Richest Terrorist Organization There Is.

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.

They Were Saying You Would Be A Tremendous Addition To The Military, And We Can Get You Into West Point With A Full Scholarship. And I Simply Said, I Want To Be A Doctor. I Really Appreciate It.

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

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

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

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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.

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

I Am Convinced That Knowledge Is Power - To Overcome The Past, To Change Our Own Situations, To Fight New Obstacles, To Make Better Decisions.

Knowledge And Power

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

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.

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

Military Action Is Never The First Thing That You Jump To. You Always Look At Other Possibilities, Including Economic Sanctions, Tightening The Screws.

Economic Sanctions

There Is No Job More Important Than Parenting. This I Believe.

Rather Than Reacting To Every Risk We Hear And See, We Should Make An Effort To Discern Which Ones We Can Do Something About.

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

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

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.

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