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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

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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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You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.
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I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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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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My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.
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I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.
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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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Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.
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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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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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What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy.
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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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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