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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It's an incredible feeling to stand on stage and see so many people getting into your music. I can't imagine there being a more satisfying feeling in the world. How many other professionals have instant gratification like that? The crowds make us feel loved, make us feel wanted, every night. We're so thankful to the fans who come out and cheer us on. They are the show.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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The spectator is a dying animal.
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The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.
