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.
BENJAMIN CARSONSome people say you’re weak because, you know, you’re not loud and you’re not boisterous and you’re not rude. But the fact of the matter is, look and see what I’ve done. And that speaks volumes about strength.
More Benjamin Carson Quotes
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman.
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The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.
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No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
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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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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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Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we’re not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We’re still running around like the days of Genghis Khan.
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Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
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If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
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We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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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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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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