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Maybe 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.

Benjamin Carson

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Order Talent World
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
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Responsibility Self
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Feelings Special Underestimate
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Others People Quickly Thinking
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Gay Long People
I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Destroy Happen Themselves Snatching
All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Defensive Provide Some Weapon Willing
These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Comes Faith Knows Trust
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Political Thinking
You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Issues People Thinking
Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Thinking Way
I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Like Potential Remembered Someone
Before GOD,no god,after him,there will be no GOD.
BENJAMIN CARSON

After All God Universe

Maybe 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.

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Maybe 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.

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