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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

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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Classical Music Profound School
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
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Awe Brain Looks
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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Inspirational Moving Success
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
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God Please Purpose Serving
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Children Choices Models Role
Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they’ll beat a path to your door.
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Doors Keys Yellow
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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Able Compassion Decrease Elevate Eventually Personal Situation
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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Christian Country Thinking
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.
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Helping Numbers Others Stress
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Important Our Success World
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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Achievement School Yale
The kind of job doesn’t matter. The length of time on the job doesn’t matter… If you work hard and do your best, you’ll be recognized and move onward.
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Hard Work Jobs Moving
Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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Brain Normal Special
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 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?

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