Ben Carson Quotes
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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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Stop thinking about failing.
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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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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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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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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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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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Putin is a one-horse country.
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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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We are capable of doing even better things than we believe we are, if we challenge each other to do it.
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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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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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It's all in God's hands.
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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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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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True greatness isn't so much what you do as who you are.
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I believe God has a specific purpose for me – and for every other person to whom he gives the gift of life.
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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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I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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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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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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When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, He or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?
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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.