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I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.

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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.
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Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.
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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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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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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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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.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
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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.
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One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.
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There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.
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