Ben Carson Quotes
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Responsible human beings must be concerned about our surroundings and what we will pass on to future generations. However, to use climate change as an excuse not to develop our God-given resources makes little sense.
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God doesn't make mistakes. So if I'm supposed to die, there's a very good reason for it. I'm not going to question him. I'm just going to enjoy all these beautiful things that God created.
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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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Stop thinking about failing.
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If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.
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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
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That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.
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It is not a matter of competing with someone else. Essentially, it is accepting our own special abilities as special – and then developing them.
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What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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Putin is a one-horse country.
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The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be.
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I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician. Because politicians do what is politically expedient - I want to do what's right.
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It's all in God's hands.
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Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them.
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Not only we can say that we cannot overload our brain, but we also know that our brain retains everything. The difficulty does not come with the input of information, but in getting it out.
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I want people to see me as an honest person, a person who is actually willing to express what they believe. The way I look at it, if people don't like that, I'd rather not be in office. I don't want to be in office under false pretenses, just saying things people want to hear so I can get elected.
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In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Do you have a brain? Then use it. It's all you need to overcome any problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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It wasn't that I had to be first in everything, but I should have been number one.
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How did we become so intrigued by risk – and so worried about it at the same time?
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I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct.
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True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.