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Benjamin Carson

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Problem School Thinking Winning
Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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Life Love Powerful Simple
By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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Big Our Think Thinking World
America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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Creativity Hard Work Responsibility
We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.
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Country Needs People Thinking
Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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Brain Thinking Way
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
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Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
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
When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
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Debt God Kindness People Privilege
There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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Class Country Design
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
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.
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Basketball Football Inspirational
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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Able Compassion Decrease Elevate Eventually Personal Situation
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.
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Attack People Racist Thinking White
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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Creationism Evolution Matter
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
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Exercise Mean Opportunity
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
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
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Choices Destiny Opportunity
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Feelings Special Underestimate
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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Daughter Government Lying
Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.
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Attitude Mental Positive Use
Some people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
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Boisterous People Rude
Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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Hated Poor Poverty
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Black Decided Stacked Wanted
Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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Make Necessary One Wise

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