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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.

Ben Carson

I want the government to provide the military so we don’t get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.
BEN CARSON

Destroy Get Government Invaded Military Provided Somebody
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
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Away Feed Fight Good Matter Out Planning Pleasure
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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Certain Measure Mind Nature Something Spiritual
You’re going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn’t necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, ‘Could I have done things to prevent this situation?’
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Create Finger Go Huge Less Much Necessary Point Somebody Stop
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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Always Door God Guidance Life Open Pray Provide Right Shut
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.
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City Come Excuse Fail Find From Inner Life Matter Out People
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Common Honesty Nation Over People All Sense Starved
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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Important Know People System Themselves Understand Value Very
One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you’re constantly trying to figure out, ‘Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?’ It’s like trying to defuse a bomb.
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Country Get Many Much Nobody One People Person Reason Separate Surgeon Them Trouble Twin
You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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Afraid Allow Break Christmas Correction Force Give Mean Mery People Political Shut
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
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I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.
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Definitely Grow Up Kid Risk
I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.
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Advocate Billion Dollar Everybody Get Treated Make One Pay Propotanail System Tax Ten
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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Allow Degrade Equivalent Every Institution Made Marriage Other Relationship Scare Should
We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
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Drive Every Hatred Have Incident Make Out People Purveyors Race Single Take Try War
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
BEN CARSON

Competitive Health Money More Own People Spend Restore Routine System Transparent

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