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?
BENJAMIN CARSONI’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Maybe that’s the problem. But whether they’ve heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff,
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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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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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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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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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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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Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
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Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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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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There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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