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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.

Benjamin Carson

Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doing Excuse Hinder Hook Mind
Every one of us must fight for it, because we’re fighting for our children and the next generation.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Children Every Fight Generation Next
I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fulfill Helping Lives Want
We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Danger Needs War
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Hands Party Victory
Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.
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People Running Want
I’ve had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.
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Building Program Scholarship Things
The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
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Doors People World
Economics is not brain surgery.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Neurosurgeon Wise Words
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
Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Order Talent World
You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.
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Believer Economics Miracle
Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they’ll beat a path to your door.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doors Keys Yellow
Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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Brain Normal Special
We are not like dogs who are kind of “What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.”
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Dog Rabbit Today
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Home Names Opponent People
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cities Patient Strong
If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Depth Giving World
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Agreement Students Stupid
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

People Responsibility Self
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Black Decided Stacked Wanted
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Comprehension Reading Vocabulary
When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Big Cell Enrich Feed Learning Nbillion Other Think
What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone’s health. It’s not only a feeling that I’m worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Able Feelings Restoration
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys.
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Clothes Hang Long School Wanted
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 detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.

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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.

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