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If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

Benjamin Carson

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Blood Mind Prayer
The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you’ve ever seen, everything you’ve ever heard.
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Brain Everything Remembers Two
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
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Inspirational Moving Success
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
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
An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later.
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Helping Knowledge Learning Others
Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift.
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Country Government Issues
Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.
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Appropriately Assess Really Risk Unless
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
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Make Sense Speak Truth
We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
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Care Economic Health Understand
America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I’ve advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn’t matter how much you make.
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Advocating Country Giving Thinking
Do we have a brain? Than use it. It’s all you need to overcome a problem. That’s the secret. That’s my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
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Life Love Powerful Simple
We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
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Believe Needs Speak
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.
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Airplane Needs Oxygen
Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we’re going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.
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Couple Thinking Years
By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.
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Able Compassion Decrease Elevate Eventually Personal Situation
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
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Dignity Nice World
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
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Daughter Government Lying
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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Important Our Success World
(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.
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Brain Half Thinking
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.
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Giving God Praying Strength
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.
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Classical Music Profound School
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
There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.
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Believe Crazy Thinking
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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Interesting Lot Mathematician Require Scientist
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices.
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People Responsibility Self

If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

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If you’re black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you’re pro life, and you’re pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

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