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Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.

Benjamin Carson

Some people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Boisterous People Rude
Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Effort Risk Should
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agreement Students Stupid
If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Environment Priorities Risk
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
BENJAMIN CARSON

Abuse May Wells
I’m a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It’s not the government’s job.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Confused Jobs Responsibility
If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that’s an area that’s as big as Lebanon. It’s controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.
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Christian Lebanon People
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
No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Airplane Needs Oxygen
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Proportionality Thinking Unfair
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
BENJAMIN CARSON

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

Excuse Giving 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
You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me. And they don’t like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.
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Believe Children Eye
If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agendas Black Life Pro
The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
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Helping Numbers Others Stress

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