If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
BENJAMIN CARSONObviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
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America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn’t matter how much you make.
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I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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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.
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You have yourself to blame.
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It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
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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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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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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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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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