Ben Carson Quotes
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We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
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If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?
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Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.
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'You do your best, we do the rest.' That fit the way I felt about God. I was going to give God my best and then it was up to God to do the rest.
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Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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I started reading about people of great accomplishment ... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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If we set our priority 'the removal of all risk', we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity.
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You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.
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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
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The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.
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Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.
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Absolutely. Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.