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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.

Benjamin Carson

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Political United States
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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Giving People Realizing
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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Being Lied Problem Truth
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
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Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
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.
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Everything Necessary Real Thinking Two
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.
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Accomplishment People Reading
We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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Life Neurosurgeons Way
(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
And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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Believe Care Correctness Crazy Government
The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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Doors People World
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
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
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
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Believe Matter Trying
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Proportionality Thinking Unfair
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

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