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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.

Benjamin Carson

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Debt God Kindness People Privilege
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Feelings Special Underestimate
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Happiness Inspiring Success
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
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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Attack People Racist Thinking White
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
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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Helping Numbers Others Stress
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.
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Destroy Happen Themselves Snatching
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Exercise Mean Opportunity
We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have.
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Korea Military Responsibility
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
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Common Honesty People Sense
Some people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
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Boisterous People Rude
If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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Fields Rise Talent Top Use
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
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Gifts Goal Happen Keys Leadership Thinking
I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Like Potential Remembered Someone

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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