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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

We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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Believe Stupid War
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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Comprehension Reading Vocabulary
Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
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Couple Thinking Years
Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
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Better Neglect Nobody Patient
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
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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Country Establish Principle Squares
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
I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
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Hands Party Victory
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
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Gifts Goal Happen Keys Leadership Thinking
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
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.
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Country Education Sports
It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
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Important People Risk
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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Doors People World
It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
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People Risk Wise
You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government’s job and I think where we’ve gotten confused.
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Confuse Constituition Gotten Governmenrt Say
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
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Children Discipline Training
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
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Baghdad Giving Strange
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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Ethics Significant Technology Things
I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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Cities Patient Strong
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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Ask Giving Play Risk Wisdom
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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Christian Giving Happy Inspirational
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

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.

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