“It’s not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.”
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Ben Carson
“Abraham Lincoln once said, “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.”
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Ben Carson
“To make the most out of life, all of us need to stop, think (and analyze), and use the talents God has given us.”
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Ben Carson
“By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.”
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Ben Carson
“go on hating myself forever for all the terrible things I’d done. I sank down on the toilet, sharp mental pictures of other temper fits filling my mind. I saw my anger, clenched my fists against my rage. I wouldn’t be any good for anything if I couldn’t change. My poor mother, I thought. She believes in me. Not even she knows how bad I am. Misery engulfed me in darkness. “If you don’t do this for me, God, I’ve got no place else to go.” At one point I’d slipped out of the bathroom long enough to grab a Bible. Now I opened it and began”
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Ben Carson
“Saul Alinsky advised his followers to level sharp attacks against their opponents with the goal of goading them into rash counterattacks that would then discredit them. To avoid falling into this trap, those of us who are interested in civil discussion should prepare ourselves to refrain from reacting in fear or anger to those who disagree with us or even attack us.”
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Ben Carson
“Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.”
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Ben Carson
“or not they plan to keep the baby. They”
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Ben Carson
“The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out. After an era of darkness, new races build others; but in the world of books are volumes that live on still as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead. — Clarence Day”
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Ben Carson
“God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.”
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Ben Carson
“It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.”
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Ben Carson
“I am fond of saying that if two people think and say the same thing about everything, then one of them is not necessary.”
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Ben Carson
“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city” (RSV).”
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Ben Carson
“When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?”
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Ben Carson
“if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.
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Ben Carson
