Some people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
BENJAMIN CARSONWhy would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman.
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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.
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Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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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.
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There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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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.
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Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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I would welcome, quite frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. I think it would be a wonderful thing if we bring back our Judeo-Christian values once again. I think it could do nothing but help us. I would be all in favor of that.
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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.
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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.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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