I don’t know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they’ll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.
BENJAMIN CARSONIf you’ve had a bumper crop, you don’t owe me triple tithes. And if you’ve had no crops at all, you don’t owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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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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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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Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
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Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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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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Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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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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Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
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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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You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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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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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win… What we’ve got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
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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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You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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I always pray for God’s guidance in my life and he always provides it. He opens the right doors he shuts the right doors. And I have tremendous faith in him. He just guided my career in an amazing way.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
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Patients do better when they have faith that they’re going to do better. That’s why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There’s nobody I don’t say that to.
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
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I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
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We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
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And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
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