Benjamin Carson Quotes
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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But the bravest man among us is afraid of himself.
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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.
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Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.
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I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Economics is not brain surgery.
