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I Think Americans Is A Very Special Nation That Was Created So That People Could Be Free. And They Could Be Free To Believe What They Wanted. They Could Be Free To Work As Hard As They Wanted, Knowing That Their Labor Would Accrue To Them And To Their Family, That There Wouldn't Be A Lot Of People Impinging Upon Their Freedom And Telling Them What They Had To Do, And That It Would Be A Nation That Was Representative Of The People, And That It Would Have A Government That Was Representative Of The People Rather Than One That Tried To Rule The People.

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Benjamin Carson

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I Think Americans Is A Very Special Nation That Was Created So That People Could Be Free. And They Could Be Free To Believe What They Wanted. They Could Be Free To Work As Hard As They Wanted, Knowing That Their Labor Would Accrue To Them And To Their Family, That There Wouldn't Be A Lot Of People Impinging Upon Their Freedom And Telling Them What They Had To Do, And That It Would Be A Nation That Was Representative Of The People, And That It Would Have A Government That Was Representative Of The People Rather Than One That Tried To Rule The People.

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Economic Sanctions

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Anyone With A Normal Brain Can Do Almost Anything.

We'll Always Be Safe In Jesus Christ If We Place Our Faith In The Lord.

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.

Successful People Don't Have Fewer Problems. They Have Determined That Nothing Will Stop Them From Going Forward.

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Doing What You Want

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America Became A Great Nation Early On Not Because It Was Flooded With Politicians, But Because It Was Flooded With People Who Understood The Value Of Personal Responsibility, Hard Work, Creativity, Innovation, And That's What Will Get Us On The Right Track Now, As Well.

Say Your Prayers. And I'll Say Mine. Because I Really Think It Helps.

There Is A Tendency Of People To Try To Make You Believe Only A Few People Are Smart. As A Brain Surgeon, I Know Better Than That.

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Some People Say You're Weak Because, You Know, You're Not Loud And You're Not Boisterous And You're Not Rude. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, Look And See What I've Done. And That Speaks Volumes About Strength.

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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My Mother Told Me If I Work Hard And I Really Believed In American Principles And I Believed In God, Anything Is Possible. That's Why I'm Not Anxious To Give Away American Values And Principles For The Sake Of Political Correctness.

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God Cares About Every Area Of Our Lives, And God Wants Us To Ask For Help.

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Resist This War On God, Freedom Of Religion And Freedom Of Speech.

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In The Old Days Of America When Communities Were Separated By Hundreds Of Miles, Why Were They Able To Thrive? Because If It Was Harvest Time And The Farmer Was Up In The Tree Picking Apples And Fell Down And Broke His Leg, Everybody Pitched In And Harvested His Crops For Him. If Somebody Got Killed By A Bear, Everybody Took Care Of Their Family.

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.

We Have A War On Women, Race Wars. Income Wars, Age Wars, Religious Wars, Anything You Can Imagine. A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand It. And It's Going To Be Up To Us, To People, To Begin The Focus On The Positive Things, On The Things That We Have In Common And Stop Listening To Those Who Are Stoking The Fires Of Division.

If We Set Our Priority "the Removal Of All Risk", We'll Soon Have Sterile, Stagnant, And Unstimulating Learning Environments.

Reading Activates And Exercises The Mind. Reading Forces The Mind To Discriminate. From The Beginning, Readers Have To Recognize Letters Printed On The Page, Make Them Into Words, The Words Into Sentences, And The Sentences Into Concepts. Reading Pushes Us To Use Our Imagination And Makes Us More Creatively Inclined.

We Have Much Better Policies Than The Democrats Do.

My Mother Only Had A Third Grade Education, Was Illiterate, Worked As A Domestic 2 To 3 Jobs At A Time, Because She Didn't Want To Be On Welfare, Because She Never Saw People Who Went On Welfare Come Off Of Welfare, And She Just Didn't Want To Have Her Life Controlled In That Fashion.

It Seems Like When You're In The Race, They Do Everything They Can To Ignore You, So Maybe Being Out Of The Race [i] Might Get A Little More Attention, We'll See.

I Think Of Success As Reaching Beyond Ourselves And Helping Other People In Specific Ways.

Even If Somebody Disagrees With You, Their Life Is Still Valuable.

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.

It Is Absolutely Vital That We Do All We Can To Allow Americans To Practice Their Religious Ways, While Simultaneously Ensuring That No One's Beliefs Infringe Upon Those Of Others. We Should Also Serve As Champions Of Freedom Of Religion Throughout The World.

An Important Verity About Knowledge Is That The Brain Works Most Effectively With Consciously Retained Information. We More Easily Remember What We Want To Recall Later. When We Feed Our Fourteen Billion Brain Cells With Information That Will Enrich Us And Help Others, We Are Really Learning To Think Big.

I Was Perhaps The Worst Student You Have Ever Seen. You Know, I Thought I Was Stupid, All My Classmates Thought I Was Stupid, So There Was General Agreement.

I Always Say If God Didn't Allow Any Bad Things To Happen, We Would Already Be In Heaven. And We Are Not There. That's Where Trust And Faith Comes In. You Just Say, "lord, I Don't Understand It. But One Thing I Do Know Is That You Understand It And That You Are In Control And I Trust You."

You Know, I'm A Physician. I Like To Diagnose Things. And, You Know, I've Diagnosed Some Pretty, Pretty Significant Issues That I Think A Lot Of People Resonate With.

Beware The Abuse Of Power. Both By Those We Disagree With, As Well As Those We May Agree With

I Feel Very Blessed To Have Been Involved With Some Of The Most Complex Surgical Procedures In The History Of The World.

It's Very Difficult To Speak To A Large Group Of People These Days And Not Offend Someone.

We Are More Than Just Flesh And Bones. There's A Certain Spiritual Nature And Something Of The Mind That We Can't Measure. We Can't Find It. With All Our Sophisticated Equipment, We Cannot Monitor Or Define It, And Yet It's There.

Here's A Nation, One Of The Founding Pillars Was Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Expression. And Yet, We Have Imposed Upon People Restrictions On What They Can Say, On What They Can Think. And The Media Is The Largest Proponent Of This, Crucifying People Who Say Things Really Quite Innocently.

If We Don't Get The Military Right Nothing Else Matters.

Why Should I Give Someone Else Such Power Over My Life?

Maybe That's How I Learned To Handle My Deep Hurt - By Forgetting.

What We Have To Stop And Think About Is That We Have Weakened Ourselves Militarily To Such An Extent That If Affects All Of Our Military Policies.

We Don't Know The End From The Beginning The Way That God Does. So When A Child Dies, Sure That Is Incredibly Difficult, And When You Are The Parent, There Is Almost Nothing Anybody Can Say To You That Makes Any Sense.

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.

If We Develop In-depth Knowledge, It Will Enable Us To Give Our Best To Others And Help To Make A Better World.

There's No Such Thing As Useless Knowledge. You Never Know What Doors It's Going To Open Up For You.

Useless Knowledge

I Like The Idea Of A Proportional Tax. That Way You Pay According To Your Ability.

I Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another. You Know, There Are Some Of The Things That I Say That Probably Would Be Considered Very Much Non-conservative. But I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think: What Makes Sense? What's Going To Help The American People? What's Going To Give Them What They Need? Not Only In Health Care But In Terms Of Jobs, In Terms Of Education, In Terms Of A Whole Host Of Issues.

I Think People Actually Notice Sometimes The Content Of What One Is Saying Rather Than The Decibel Level At Which He Says It. And A Lot Of Times When People Don't Have A Lot To Say, They Increase The Volume.

When We Are Confronted By Failure And Mistakes, We Can Leave Them Behind And Go On With Our Lives.

Uninformed People Can Be Easily Manipulated.

I Just Hated Poverty.

In General I Was A Good Kid. It Usually Took A Lot To Make Me Mad. But Once I Reached The Boiling Point, I Lost All Rational Control. Totally Without Thinking, When My Anger Was Aroused, I Grabbed The Nearest Brick, Rock, Or Stick To Bash Someone. It Was As If I Had No Conscious Will In The Matter.

We've Gotten Into This - This Mindset Of Fighting Politically Correct Wars. There Is No Such Thing As A Politically Correct War. The Left, Of Course, Will Say Carson Doesn't Believe In The Geneva Convention, Carson Doesn't Believe In Fighting Stupid Wars. And - And What We Have To Remember Is We Want To Utilize The Tremendous Intellect That We Have In The Military To Win Wars.

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