Benjamin Carson Quotes
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
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I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.
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We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
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Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.
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We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
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I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
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As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
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I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
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In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity .
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We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
