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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

Benjamin Carson

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
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.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Airplane Needs Oxygen
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Choices Poverty Realizing
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Dark Night Skeletons
There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Ethics Significant Technology Things
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Flesh Mind Spiritual
We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Life Neurosurgeons Way
Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Knowledge People Special
We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Baghdad Giving Strange
But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video. Where I came from, they call that a lie.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Daughter Government Lying
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Made Relationship Sacred
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
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Inspirational Moving Success
I don’t think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Conservative Sense Thinking
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Around Intelligent Names People
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Differences Order Our World

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