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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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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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If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.
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What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.
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I just hated poverty.
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If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.
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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'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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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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A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
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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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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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Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.
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Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.
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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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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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If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
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Economics is not brain surgery.
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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