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(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

Benjamin Carson

I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Destroy Happen Themselves Snatching
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?
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Cells God Inspirational
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
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Block Hypocrite Kids
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
And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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Believe Care Correctness Crazy Government
I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other’s enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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Flames People Understanding
You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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Everything God Try Trying
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Doors Opportunity
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.
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Children Discipline Training
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
All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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Defensive Provide Some Weapon Willing
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
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
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
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Choices Poverty Realizing
Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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Hated Poor Poverty
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Numbers Others Stress

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