Benjamin Carson Quotes
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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've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.
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If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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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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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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When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
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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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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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No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.
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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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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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We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
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Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.
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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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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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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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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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It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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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.
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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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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.