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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.

Benjamin Carson

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
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Matter Trying
Say your prayers. And I’ll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Prayer Thinking
You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Everything God Try Trying
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Attack People Racist Thinking White
The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Everything Remembers Two
Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Homosexual Law Men Religion
If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fields Rise Talent Top Use
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Happiness Inspiring Success
If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Matter Military Nothing
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Made Relationship Sacred
I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Hands Party Victory
I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Like Potential Remembered Someone
We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Bunch Choices Guarantee Refugees Terrorist
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Building Program Scholarship Things
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Establish Principle Squares

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