And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
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 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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Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
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I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
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You have yourself to blame.
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If you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
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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.
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If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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