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 CARSONMaybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.
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Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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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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I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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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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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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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.
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Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can’t talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
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If we don’t get the military right nothing else matters.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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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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