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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 Carson

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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Still Valuable
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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Cities Patient Strong
A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ability Appropriate Surgeons
If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Depth Giving World
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Matter Trying
Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Allowing Fear Peril
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Political Thinking
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
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Honesty Truth Worry
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Risk Wise
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
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Dignity Nice World
We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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Care Economic Health Understand
You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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Christmas Mean People
We need to be doing lots of other things with the resources that we have. So economic power works just as well as military power, perhaps even better. And speaking of that, our Military needs to be upgraded.
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Economic Military Needs

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.

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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.

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