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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

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!
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Hurt Negative Positive Thinking
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Around Intelligent Names People
Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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Creativity Different Perspective
And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.
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Believe Care Correctness Crazy Government
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
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Baghdad Giving Strange
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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Gay Long People
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
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.
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Agreement Students Stupid
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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Helping Others People Quickly Thinking
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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Achievement School Yale
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
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Enemy Mean Trying
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
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
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Choices Destiny Opportunity
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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Empires Moral Much Together Value
We’ve gotten into this – this mindset of fighting politically correct wars. There is no such thing as a politically correct war.
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Believe Stupid War
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Important Our Success World
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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Country Fire Men
You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Giving God Praying Strength
Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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Boundaries Bully Pushing Resistance
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
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
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Order Talent World
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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Believe Crazy Thinking
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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Doors Knowledge Things Useless
To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn’t mean we won’t have difficulties along the way. We will – we all do… If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can’t win,” we moan. “They won’t let us win.”
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Mean Thinking Winning

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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