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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

Benjamin Carson

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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Block Hypocrite Kids
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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Fruit Harvest Labor
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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Enemy Mean Trying
Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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Hard Opportunity Sight Work
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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Economic Giving Government Models
There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
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Doors Knowledge Things Useless
Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.
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Interesting Lot Mathematician Require Scientist
The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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Able Brain Important Rapidly
I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced…I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
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Community Country Peaceful People Person Religion
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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Ideas Pay Way
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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Attack People Racist Thinking White
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
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.
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Flesh Mind Spiritual
The kind of job doesn’t matter. The length of time on the job doesn’t matter… If you work hard and do your best, you’ll be recognized and move onward.
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Hard Work Jobs Moving
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
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Choices Destiny Opportunity

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