Benjamin Carson Quotes
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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.
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I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
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The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
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Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
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And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.
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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.
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We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?
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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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Stop thinking of failing.
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You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.