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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.

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Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt - by forgetting.
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I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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I am asking the Congress, which represents the people, to declare a war on ISIS so that we can begin the process of excising that cancer and begin the healing process, and bring peace, prosperity, and safety back to America.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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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.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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[Donald Trump] is talked about enormous loss that we've had in this country by allowing radical Islamic extremists to run rampant without having a coherent plan for how to destroy them, not just to contain them, but to destroy them. And the implications of that for all families who are losing service members is significant.
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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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