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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.

Benjamin Carson

I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Being Lied Problem Truth
There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Information People Way
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
America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Creativity Hard Work Responsibility
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Daughter Government Lying
Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Appropriately Assess Really Risk Unless
If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Environment Priorities Risk
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Still Valuable
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Done might Operating Room
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Thinking Way
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Needs Speak
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 CARSON

Giving People Realizing
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
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Basketball Football Inspirational
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ask Giving Play Risk Wisdom

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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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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