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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

Benjamin Carson

A good surgeon doesn’t just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you’re doing.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ability Appropriate Surgeons
We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Choices Destiny Opportunity
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.
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Hard Opportunity Sight Work
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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Book Library Reading
Went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn’t care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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Back Cool Getting Low Pat Student Went
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
A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight – and when they come out, they’re gay.
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Crazy Gay Prison Straight Stupid
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Country Political United States
You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.
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Issues People Thinking
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
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
Say your prayers. And I’ll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Helping Prayer Thinking
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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Helping Others People Quickly Thinking
You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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Change Fiuntamental Structure
We’ll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Christ Jesus Safe

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