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.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf 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.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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We’ll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
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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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I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other’s enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
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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?
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If you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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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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Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
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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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