Ben Carson Quotes
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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I'm so comfortable and happy with the woman that I am.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
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Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.
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I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
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Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
