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Benjamin Carson

I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
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Agreement Students Stupid
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
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Country Political United States
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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Classical Music Profound School
An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.
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Helping Knowledge Learning Others
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
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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Fruit Harvest Labor
If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
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Matter Military Nothing
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.
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Bunch Choices Guarantee Refugees Terrorist
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
Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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Creativity Different Perspective
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Around Intelligent Names People
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
We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
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Dramatic Ending Fall Stope Wish Witness
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
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Gifts Goal Happen Keys Leadership Thinking
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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People Responsibility Self
Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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Easily People Person Uninformed
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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Concentrate Needs People World
I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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Ideas Pay Way
People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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Looks People Problem
Maybe that’s the problem. But whether they’ve heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff,
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Christian Country Thinking
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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People Running Want
Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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Giving Jobs Trying
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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Doctors Government People
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
Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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Brain Normal Special

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