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Ben Carson

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
The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
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Blood Body Complex Control Flesh Mind More Much So System
Economics is not brain surgery.
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Brain Economics Surgery
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
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accept After Excuse Look People So Stop Them While
We need to understand that we are not each others’ enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction… that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
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There is no one that we can afford to throw away.
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Afford Away No One Throw
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
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Along Everybody Go Group Helpful People Silence Veryy Would
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can’t afford to throw any young people away.
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Afford Away Country Education Fundamental People Pricviple Success Young
Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn’t let them do it.
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Come Nation Our Strength Unity
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
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
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
I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.
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Definitely Grow Up Kid Risk
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
Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave.
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Anyone Into Let Slave Turn
The P.C. police are out in force at all times… We’ve reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
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Actually Afraid All Aout Force Pc People Point Police Reach Say Talk Time
You know, many people have said that I’m on the edge and I’m maverick for some of the big operations that I’ve done. I’m not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, ‘Should I do it?’, guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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Cost Cut Doctor Empower Information Key Middlemen Out Patient Thing
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Fair God Proportionally Say Think Unfair
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Against Black Could Cruel Decide Easily Everything Meant Stack
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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Freedom Go Religion Resist Speech War
I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.
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Back Citizen Fellow never Turn Would
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
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The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue… A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
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Demos Fact Government Irs Kind Much Opponent Or Use
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
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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