“I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”
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Ben Carson
“One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.”
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Ben Carson
“heredity, but personal response is the final determining factor in our lives. And herein lies our area”
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Ben Carson
“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”
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Ben Carson
“What will maintain the pinnacle position of our nation in the world: the ability to shoot a 25-foot jump shot, or the ability to solve a quadratic equation?”
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Ben Carson
“The babies had been successfully anesthetized after only a few hours, a complex procedure because of their shared blood vessels.”
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Ben Carson
