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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.

Benjamin Carson

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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Bumper Fair Own Something Triple
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Choices Poverty Realizing
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Behind Goes Mistake
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Home Names Opponent People
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Common Honesty People Sense
We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
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Dramatic Ending Fall Stope Wish Witness
My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That’s why I’m not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Giving Hard Work Mother
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Hard Opportunity Sight Work
You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Issues People Thinking
We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Care Economic Health Understand
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Interesting Lot Mathematician Require Scientist
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Make Sense Speak Truth
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important People Risk
I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Romance Running
A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ability Appropriate Surgeons

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