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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

And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fighting Knowledge Past Power
Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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Hated Poor Poverty
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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Increase Knowledge Limits Reading World
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.
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Doing Excuse Hinder Hook Mind
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Hard Opportunity Sight Work
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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Effort Risk Should
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
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Flesh Mind Spiritual
I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
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Fairs Guy Thinking
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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Honesty Truth Worry
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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Real School Thinking
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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Fields Rise Talent Top Use
If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
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Acknowledge Helping Needs
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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People Responsibility Self
A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
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Ability Appropriate Surgeons
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Best Done God Rest

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.

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