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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

If you don’t accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Excuse Giving People
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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Children Discipline Training
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
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Depth Giving World
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.
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Believe Choose Life Try Want Way
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
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Best Done God Rest
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
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Home Names Opponent People
A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
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Ability Appropriate Surgeons
America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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Creativity Hard Work Responsibility
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.
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Issues People Thinking
If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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Fields Rise Talent Top Use
Maybe that’s the problem. But whether they’ve heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff,
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Christian Country Thinking
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
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Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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Book Library Reading
All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.
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Defensive Provide Some Weapon Willing
By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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Big Our Think Thinking World
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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Conservative Sense Thinking
And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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Believe Care Correctness Crazy Government
These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.
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Comes Faith Knows Trust
When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
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Awe Brain Looks
What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, “they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us”.
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Attitude Brotherhood Land
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn’t mean we won’t have difficulties along the way. We will – we all do… If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can’t win,” we moan. “They won’t let us win.”
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Mean Thinking Winning
Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.
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Belief Crazy Gay
You have yourself to blame.
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Allow Blame Yourself

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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