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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.

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
If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Acknowledge Helping Needs
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?
BENJAMIN CARSON

Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
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
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Danger Faces Fear
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,
BENJAMIN CARSON

Christian Country Thinking
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agreement Students Stupid
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Mother Scare Years
I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Care Numbers Thinking
I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fairs Guy 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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Running Want
You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you’re probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you’re probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Children Dog Running
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Still Valuable
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
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement Ignorance Reading
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Black Decided Stacked Wanted

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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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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