Benjamin Carson Quotes
I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
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I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.
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You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.
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I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.
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I recognize that here are very efficiently run cooperatives. There are many opportunities for the Socorro Electric Cooperative to cut costs and offer more services.
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Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.
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Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted...
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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.
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As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.
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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
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People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
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I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.
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I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
