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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

Benjamin Carson

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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Basketball Football Inspirational
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Honesty Truth Worry
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
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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Made Relationship Sacred
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 People Risk
Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Easily People Person Uninformed
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Important Our Success World
I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
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Accomplishment People Reading
Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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Country Government Issues
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Children Choices Models Role
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement School Yale
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Children Discipline Training
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.
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Believe Country General Person Remember Say Utilize
The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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Able Brain Important Rapidly
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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Enemy Mean Trying
God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cells God Inspirational

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