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.
BENJAMIN CARSONWhat we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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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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America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
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We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.
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Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That’s why I’m not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
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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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There’s a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
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One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
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I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.
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Say your prayers. And I’ll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
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The culture in which we live stresses looking out for number one. Without adopting such a self-centered value system, we can demand the best of ourselves while we are extending our hands to help others.
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You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we’re going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They’re not happy about it, believe me. And they don’t like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.
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The left, of course, will say Carson doesn’t believe in the Geneva Convention, Carson doesn’t believe in fighting stupid wars. And – and what we have to remember is we want to utilize the tremendous intellect that we have in the military to win wars.
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Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background – it’s very interesting.
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God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
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We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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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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I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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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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You have yourself to blame.
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