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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

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Accomplishment People Reading
If you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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Excuse Giving People
Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Love Powerful Simple
I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
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Destroy Happen Themselves Snatching
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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Problem School Thinking Winning
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
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Basketball Football Inspirational
A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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Operation Patient Together
If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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Hurt Negative Positive Thinking
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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Concentrate Needs People World
We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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Believe Needs Speak
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Around Intelligent Names People
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
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Helping Numbers Others Stress
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
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Choices Poverty Realizing
Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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Country Government Issues
(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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Brain Half Thinking
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.
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Agreement Students Stupid

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