Benjamin Carson Quotes
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.
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Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.
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An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
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If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable.
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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
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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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In order to have good health care you need a patient and you need a health care provider.
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Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
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Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.
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I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.
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I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.
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What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.
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A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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I would support whoever the people have chosen. We have to abandon the thinking that there is a bunch of politically elite people who know what is best, let the people determine for themselves who is best.
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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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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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.