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Some 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.

Benjamin Carson

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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Empires Moral Much Together Value
It’s very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don’t know what your value system is, then you don’t know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Important People Risk
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
Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are – they don’t get to change the definition.
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Belief Crazy Gay
I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.
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Helping Others People Quickly Thinking
White liberals are the most racist people there are, because they put blacks in a box and insist that they think one way – and if they don’t, they attack them as illegitimate, all the while denying that their policies destroy blacks.
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Attack People Racist Thinking White
Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.
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Germany Nazi Way
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.
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Achievement School Yale
Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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Brain Thinking Way
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
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Believe Important Jobs
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
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Fighting Knowledge Past Power
It’s not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
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Happiness Inspiring Success
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
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Life Still Valuable
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
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Conservative Sense Thinking
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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Behind Goes Mistake
If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we’ll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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Environment Priorities Risk

Some 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.

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Some 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.

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