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I’d like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

Benjamin Carson

Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn’t mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Enemy Mean Trying
Over the years my mother’s steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Mother Scare Years
Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.
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Billion Everybody Pay Proportional Taxes Way
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
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
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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Doctors Government People
The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Danger Faces Fear
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Believe Important Jobs
In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Culture Obsession Security
There’s no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it’s going to open up for you.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doors Knowledge Things Useless
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Country Political United States
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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Basketball Football Inspirational
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Exercise Mean Opportunity
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
When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Behind Goes Mistake
I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Fighting Knowledge Past Power

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