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I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Benjamin Carson

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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Mother Scare Years
(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Half Thinking
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
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Fire Men
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
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Basketball Football Inspirational
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
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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Body Environment Increase
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
The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Everything Remembers Two
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’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
I’m a good neurosugeon. That’s not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.
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Determination Hands Skills
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Freedom Speech War
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Knowing Smarter Thinking
We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are – ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.
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Country Giving Organization
Maybe that’s the problem. But whether they’ve heard it of not. The issue is the train that is going off the cliff. After we save the country, after we keep the train from going off the cliff,
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Christian Country Thinking

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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