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The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.

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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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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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I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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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.
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I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.
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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.
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I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
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We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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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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I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
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I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.
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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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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
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