Benjamin Carson Quotes
Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
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It shows how from very, very dark circumstances -- and we've had to deal with terrorism year after year after year which has killed hundreds of people -- it is possible to see the light, provide the process to keep going and achieve results.
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When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.
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We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
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A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice.
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Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.
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Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
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Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
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A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.
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Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.
