Benjamin Carson Quotes
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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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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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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with.
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You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
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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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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.
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You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.
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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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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
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God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.
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A culture exists within the Ted Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.
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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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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
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Stop thinking of failing.
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Let's say somebody were in the White House and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.
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Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.
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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free to believe what they wanted. They could be free to work as hard as they wanted, knowing that their labor would accrue to them and to their family, that there wouldn't be a lot of people impinging upon their freedom and telling them what they had to do, and that it would be a nation that was representative of the people, and that it would have a government that was representative of the people rather than one that tried to rule the people.
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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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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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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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Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.