Benjamin Carson Quotes
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us".
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
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There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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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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What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.
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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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I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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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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Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
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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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When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: “It depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and I’m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.
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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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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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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
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I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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I don't do a lot of talking. I do a lot of doing. And really, it says more about a person than how much they talk.
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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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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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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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?