Benjamin Carson Quotes - Page 5

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• Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, People, Survival

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• 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.

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  People, Risk, Important

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• God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

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  Believe, Opportunity, Doors

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson, 2012.

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• I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

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  People, Effort, Trying

  "Interview: Dr. Benjamin Carson Talks Race, Politics and Life After Medicine". Interview with Leonardo Blair, www.christianpost.com. March 8, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Technology, Significant Things, Ethics

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• Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

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  Order, World, Talent

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• The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

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  Jobs, Moving, Hard Work

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story". Book by Benjamin Carson, 1990.

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• 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.

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  Children, Discipline, Training

  "Interview with Dr. Ben Carson on Education". TheBestSchools.org Interview, thebestschools.org.

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• If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. 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.

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  Intelligent, House Of Cards, Names

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• We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.

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  Life, Way, Neurosurgeons

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• If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry.

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  Christian, People, Lebanon

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

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  Purpose, Serving God, Please

  "Dr. Ben Carson Says National Prayer Breakfast Speech Was Meant to 'Please God'" by Katherine Weber, www.christianpost.com. February 25, 2013.

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• If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

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  Military, Matter, Ifs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

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  Poverty, Poor, Hated

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

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  Cutting, Trying, Wire

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• I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.

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  Race, Npr, Skins

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.

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  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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

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  Remembered

  "Dr. Ben Carson ‘Gifted Hands’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 6, 2009.

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• People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

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  People, Looks, Problem

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• It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.

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  Wise, People, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

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  Feelings, Special, Underestimate

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

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  Planning, Oblivion, Future Plans

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• 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, Oxygen, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We don't need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to - to choose the right choice, not these false choices.

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  Choices, Would Be, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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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, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

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  Fall, Men, Two

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson and Candy Carson, December 16, 2011.

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