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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

Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Feelings Special Underestimate
When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
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Awe Brain Looks
Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.
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Belief Crazy Gay
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
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Believe Choose Life Try Want Way
Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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Hated Poor Poverty
To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn’t mean we won’t have difficulties along the way. We will – we all do… If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can’t win,” we moan. “They won’t let us win.”
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Mean Thinking Winning
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Economic Military Needs
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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Favorite Mother Smart Subject
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.
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Fields Rise Talent Top Use
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.
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Helping Numbers Others Stress
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Best Done God Rest
I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.
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People Romance Running
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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Happiness Inspiring Success
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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Danger Needs War
No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
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Airplane Needs Oxygen
Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
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Mother Scare Years

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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