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In our culture, security has become an obsession.

Benjamin Carson

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
BENJAMIN CARSON

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

Excuse Giving People
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Knowing Smarter Thinking
I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced…I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Community Country Peaceful People Person Religion
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fighting Knowledge Past Power
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Happiness Inspiring Success
When I look at the human brain I’m still in awe of it.
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Awe Brain Looks
Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Crazy 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
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
There’s absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn’t be involved in things that affect all of us.
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Physicians Reason Scientist
Economics is not brain surgery.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Neurosurgeon Wise Words
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Children Choices Models Role
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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Germany Nazi Way
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Danger Faces Fear
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
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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Real School Thinking
We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.
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Future Oblivion Planning Plans
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.
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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
(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Half Thinking
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it’s followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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Classical Music Profound School
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Children Discipline Training
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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Brain Normal Special
We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama’s not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don’t get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
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Country Military People President
Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
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Billion Bills Dollars Giving

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