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Economics is not brain surgery.

Benjamin Carson

There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Physicians Reason Scientist
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Numbers Others Stress
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ideas Pay Way
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Block Hypocrite Kids
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Common Honesty People Sense
If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
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Agendas Black Life Pro
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Gifts Goal Happen Keys Leadership Thinking
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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Exercise Mean Opportunity
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Choose Life Try Want Way
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement School Yale
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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Body Environment Increase
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fruit Harvest Labor
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Government People Suppose
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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Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
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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Country Fire Men
Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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Country Government Issues

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