“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
“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.”
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Ben Carson
“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.”
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Ben Carson
“Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright”
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Ben Carson
“While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.”
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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
“No group of American citizens should be singled out for extra taxation and no group should be spared taxation on the federal level.”
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Ben Carson
“I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.”
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Ben Carson
“I came to understand that very day that I was always angry because I was selfish. I felt that someone was always infringing on my rights, getting in my space, messing with my things, disregarding my positions, and so on, which offended me, leading to inappropriate behavior. Through wisdom provided by God it dawned on me that I should step outside of the center of the circle so that everything wasn’t always about me.”
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Ben Carson
“Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.”
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Ben Carson
“This power became addicting to many elected officials who, instead of going to Washington, DC, for a brief time to represent their constituency, wanted to hold their positions for extended periods of time — even for life. This growing power and the progressive intrusion of government into the lives of the people was so insidious that it went largely undetected.”
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Ben Carson
“Perhaps well-meaning individuals temporarily forgot that we live in a nation where the majority does not impose its will on the minority simply because it can.”
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Ben Carson
“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”
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Ben Carson
“Do what you have to do so that you can be what you want to be”
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Ben Carson
“If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.”
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Ben Carson
