Benjamin Carson Quotes
A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
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Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
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'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' is one of my favorite movies; it's a film that's a human comedy, it's a drama, and the characters all, in a way, fit the teenage archetypes, but they don't become stereotypes because each of the actors brought their own presence and their own personality to the screen.
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Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain.
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To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.
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It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.
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I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.
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Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.
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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.
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To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
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Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can't just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
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A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.
