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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

A great operation on the wrong patient is just as bad as a horrible operation on the right patient. So, you have to have all that together.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Operation Patient Together
No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you’re on an airplane, they always say, “in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor.” We need oxygen right now.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Airplane Needs Oxygen
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Containing Failure Looks Obstacle Softball
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Billion Bills Dollars Giving
It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Risk Wise
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
BENJAMIN CARSON

Proportionality Thinking Unfair
People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Common Honesty People Sense
You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Everything God Try Trying
(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
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement School Yale
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Economic Giving Government Models
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Everything Necessary Real Thinking Two
We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Dramatic Ending Fall Stope Wish Witness
I’m convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fruit Harvest Labor
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Body Environment Increase
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Building Program Scholarship Things

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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