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By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

Benjamin Carson

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

Basketball Football Inspirational
If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
BENJAMIN CARSON

Hurt Negative Positive Thinking
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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Book Library Reading
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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Body Environment Increase
Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Giving Jobs Trying
Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
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Couple Thinking Years
Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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Make Necessary One Wise
I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
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Like Potential Remembered Someone
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Romance Running
Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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Boundaries Bully Pushing Resistance
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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Honesty Truth Worry
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can – prepare, pray and achieve – to make it happen.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Choose Life Try Want Way
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
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Ask Giving Play Risk Wisdom
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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Enemy Mean Trying
My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That’s why I’m not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
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Giving Hard Work Mother

By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

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By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

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