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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Benjamin Carson

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Comprehension Reading Vocabulary
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
I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats.
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Hands Party Victory
My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is possible. That’s why I’m not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness.
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Giving Hard Work Mother
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
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
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Proportionality Thinking Unfair
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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Danger Needs War
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don’t try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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Gay Long People
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
God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.
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Care Helping Want
You have to try, you have to try everything you can.
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Everything God Try Trying
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Children Choices Models Role
America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that’s what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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Creativity Hard Work Responsibility
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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Conservative Sense Thinking
Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don’t have to do that.
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Children Discipline Training

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