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There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

Benjamin Carson

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Hard Opportunity Sight Work
Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
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Creationism Evolution Matter
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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Believe Important Jobs
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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Choices Poverty Realizing
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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Billion Bills Dollars Giving
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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Class Country Design
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Feelings Special Underestimate
We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama’s not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don’t get the military right, nothing else is going to work.
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Country Military People President
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
I think God’s a pretty fair guy.
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Fairs Guy Thinking
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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Believe Children Eye
Every one of us must fight for it, because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.
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Children Every Fight Generation Next
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Black Decided Stacked Wanted
We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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Apart Common More Much People
You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
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Issues People Thinking
Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
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Mother Scare Years
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
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
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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Country Establish Principle Squares
Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed.
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Homosexual Law Men Religion
Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don’t allow you to advance, then you’re going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you’re going to be a success.
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Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
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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Dark Night Skeletons
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
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Made Relationship Sacred
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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Environment Priorities Risk
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Differences Order Our World
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
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Achievement Ignorance Reading

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