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Benjamin Carson

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
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Exercise Mean Opportunity
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Couple Thinking Years
The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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Body Environment Increase
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.
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Operation Patient Together
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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Black Decided Stacked Wanted
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
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Country Fire Men
Under Islamic Law, homosexuals – men and women alike – must be killed. Women must be subservient. And people following other religions must be killed.
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Homosexual Law Men Religion
I always say if God didn’t allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Always Bad Happens Heaven Say Thing
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
It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.
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Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
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.
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Agreement Students Stupid
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
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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Empires Moral Much Together Value
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
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
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God Please Purpose Serving
God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.
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Done might Operating Room

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