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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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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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You have yourself to blame.
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I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.
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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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We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
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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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The left, of course, will say Carson doesn't believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars. And - and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.
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Our country since its inception has been at war, every 15 or 20 years. But the war that we are fighting against radical Islamist jihadists is one that we must win. Our very existence is dependent upon that.
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If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.
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I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.
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What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.
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I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
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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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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
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Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.
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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.
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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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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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