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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

You have yourself to blame.

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

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

Do what you have to do so that you can be what you want to be

If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.

The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.

We have much better policies than the Democrats do.

Carson doesn't believe in fighting stupid wars.

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.

Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.

I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.

I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time doesn't matter. If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.

You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

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

Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my fee: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

I don't worry about things that aren't important.

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

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.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

By thinking big, we can transform our world.

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

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.

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay.

Stop thinking of failing.

My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.

The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

Maybe that's how I learned to handle up my deep hurt ... by forgetting.

We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

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.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance,

What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.

In our culture, security has become an obsession.

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.

A culture exists within the [Ted] Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Whoever wins in 2016, I'm pretty sure it's going to be a Republican, I think they should make it their goal to seal that border within a year.

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.