I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
BENJAMIN CARSONGod has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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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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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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A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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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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These are just things that we don’t know, and that’s where trust and faith come in.
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It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
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It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
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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.
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There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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