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What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

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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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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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Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
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People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.
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What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us.
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The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.
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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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Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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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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We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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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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Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain.
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