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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

Benjamin Carson

Economics is not brain surgery.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Neurosurgeon Wise Words
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Being Lied Problem Truth
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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Fruit Harvest Labor
Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Mother Scare Years
These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Comes Faith Knows Trust
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ability Appropriate Surgeons
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Crazy Thinking
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Economic Giving Government Models
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Still Valuable
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement School Yale
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Able Feelings Restoration
It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cities Excuse People
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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Abuse May Wells
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Increase Knowledge Limits Reading World

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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