In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
BEN CARSONWe’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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You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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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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What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
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There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it’s because life is so short, and there’s so much that can change.
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I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn’t look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it’s going to be fine.
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In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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