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Ben Carson

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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Classmate Ever Known Perhaps Seen Student Stupid Thought Worst
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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All Basketball Exactly Excel Highest Kind Level Pedestal People Player Same State Tongue
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
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Cesspool Detest Fare Honest Politics Think Well
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
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
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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Believe Better Brain Few Make People Smart Surgeon Tendency
I just happen to believe that people are not stupid. And the way I will come at it is to educate people, help people to actually understand that it is that progressive movement that is causing them the problems.
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Actual Belief Educate Happen Help Just People Stupid Understand Way
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Continue Make Prefer Sense Speak Truth
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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Core Country Empire Like Lost More Sense Term Value Very Were
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
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Concern Entire Health Individual Patient Society
There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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Correct Political Such Things War
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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Against God Please Purpose Serve
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.
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Competitive Health Money More Own People Spend Restore Routine System Transparent
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
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Common Honesty Nation Over People All Sense Starved
Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody’s brain, I’m thinking, ‘This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they’ve ever experienced is right in there.’
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Brain Depth Every Look Make Person Somebody Think Time
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.
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Destroy Get Government Invaded Military Provided Somebody
You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.
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Believer Miracle Seen Understand
I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It’s not the environment, it’s not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It’s what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
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Happen Look Merit People Person Recognize Story You
I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.
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Back Citizen Fellow never Turn Would
A lot of people simply don’t realize their potential because they’re just so risk adverse. They just don’t want to take the risk.
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Adverse Lot People Potential Realize Simply Som Risk Take Want
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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Dream Faith God Hard Work Live Preservamce Through
You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
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Brain Have Knowledge Person Surgeon Valuable
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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Bone Certain Flesh Just Measure Mind More Nature Something Spiritual Then
What you’re saying is that ‘I, the superior elite, will take care of you.’ Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can’t be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.
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Care Elite Feel Need Say See Superior
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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Argument Around Illogical Name Opponent Rebut Slur Thinker
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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Believe Favorite Fortunately Had Me Mother Race Smart Subject

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