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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.

Benjamin Carson

My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Favorite Mother Smart Subject
We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else’s problems.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Country Needs People Thinking
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
(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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Brain Half Thinking
Here is the treasure chest of the world – the public library, or a bookstore.
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Book Library Reading
And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Everything Necessary Real Thinking Two
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Concentrate Needs People World
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Done might Operating Room
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Culture Obsession Security
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Accepting Excus People
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Block Hypocrite Kids
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Come Helping Matter Others Recognize
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Children Discipline Training
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Achievement School Yale
The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doors People World
You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Christmas Mean People

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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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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