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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.
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You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
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Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
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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.
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Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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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.
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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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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.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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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.
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
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I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
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Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that's what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they're only excuses. You don't have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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