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

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If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
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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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Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.
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[Donald Trump] is talked about enormous loss that we've had in this country by allowing radical Islamic extremists to run rampant without having a coherent plan for how to destroy them, not just to contain them, but to destroy them. And the implications of that for all families who are losing service members is significant.
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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 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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I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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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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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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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
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You have yourself to blame.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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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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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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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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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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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 just happen to believe that people are not stupid.
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