We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
BENJAMIN CARSONUse PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.
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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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I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
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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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When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
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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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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.
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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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There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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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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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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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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