Benjamin Carson Quotes
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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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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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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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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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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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If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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I'm the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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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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In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.
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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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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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God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
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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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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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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.
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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 God's a pretty fair guy.
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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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You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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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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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.