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If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

Benjamin Carson

We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Stupid War
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
People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Looks People Problem
If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agendas Black Life Pro
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Children Choices Models Role
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agreement Students Stupid
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Empires Moral Much Together Value
It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one’s beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Freedom Practice Religious
And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Everything Necessary Real Thinking Two
We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
BENJAMIN CARSON

Dog Rabbit Today
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Others People Quickly Thinking
When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Debt God Kindness People Privilege
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
Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doing Excuse Hinder Hook Mind
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
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Flesh Mind Spiritual

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