Benjamin Carson Quotes
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Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
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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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Stop thinking of failing.
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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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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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But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.
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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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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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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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Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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I think God's a pretty fair guy.
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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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It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians."
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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 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 have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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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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Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.