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.
BENJAMIN CARSONBeing 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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Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
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You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn’t mean we won’t have difficulties along the way. We will – we all do… If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can’t win,” we moan. “They won’t let us win.”
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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
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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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I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
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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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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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This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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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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If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
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