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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Benjamin Carson

Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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Believe Important Jobs
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
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
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
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Believe People Smart
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
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.
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Everything Necessary Real Thinking Two
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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Hard Opportunity Sight Work
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
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Allowing Fear Peril
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Achievement Ignorance Reading
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
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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Flesh Mind Spiritual
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
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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Interesting Lot Mathematician Require Scientist
There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren’t getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
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Information People Way
We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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Believe Stupid War

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

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