Benjamin Carson Quotes
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If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.
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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?
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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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No matter who you are,no matter what you do-do not be too big for GOD.
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I always pray for God's guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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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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Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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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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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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I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
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I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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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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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
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No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.