Benjamin Carson Quotes
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
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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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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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Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
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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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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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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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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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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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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 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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I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.