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 CARSONEven if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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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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Education does not necessarily make one wise?
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
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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.
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I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they’ll beat a path to your door.
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Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won’t have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
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The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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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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