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I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.

Benjamin Carson

Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doing Excuse Hinder Hook Mind
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important Our Success World
It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cities Excuse People
Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Billion Bills Dollars Giving
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
We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Korea Military Responsibility
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Comprehension Reading Vocabulary
If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Matter Military Nothing
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fields Rise Talent Top Use
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Attack People Racist Thinking White
No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Airplane Needs Oxygen
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Feelings Special Underestimate
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement Ignorance Reading
Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Media Sports
The left, of course, will say Carson doesn’t believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn’t believe in fighting stupid wars. And – and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Country General Person Remember Say Utilize
You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Everything God Try Trying

I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.

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