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I Would Love To See Music Reinstated As An Essential Part Of Schooling. The Culture That It Brings; The Knowledge That It Brings. Just Learning How To Read Music Requires Metrics, And I Think That Helps You With Mathematics. A Lot Of Scientists And Doctors Have A Musical Background - It's Very Interesting.

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Benjamin Carson

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I Would Love To See Music Reinstated As An Essential Part Of Schooling. The Culture That It Brings; The Knowledge That It Brings. Just Learning How To Read Music Requires Metrics, And I Think That Helps You With Mathematics. A Lot Of Scientists And Doctors Have A Musical Background - It's Very Interesting.

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The Most Important Thing For Me Is Having A Relationship With God. To Know That The Owner, The Creator Of The Universe Loves You, Sent His Son To Die For Your Sins; That's Very Empowering. Knowing Him And Knowing That He Loves Me Gives Me Encouragement And Confidence To Move Forward.

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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.

Quite Frankly, Having An Uninformed Populace Works Extremely Well, Particularly When You Have A Media That Doesn't Understand Its Responsibility And Feels More Like It's An Arm Of A Political Party. They Can Really Take Advantage Of An Uninformed Populace.

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And I Know You’re Not Supposed To Say ‘nazi Germany,’ But I Don’t Care About Political Correctness. You Know, You Had A Government Using Its Tools To Intimidate The Population. We Now Live In A Society Where People Are Afraid To Say What They Actually Believe.

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I Always Say If God Didn't Allow Any Bad Things To Happen We Would Already Be In Heaven, And We Are Not There.

One Dark Night The Skeletons That They Had Carefully Hidden In An Obscure Closet Appeared, Grabbed Them Around The Throat, And Strangled Them.

We Seem To Be Afraid To Give The Kurds Weaponry. We Like To Send It For Some Strange Reason Through Baghdad, And Then They Only Get A Tenth Of It.

If I Had A Little Kid In Kindergarten Somewhere, Would Feel Much More Comfortable If I Knew On That Campus There Was A Police Officer Or Somebody Who Was Trained With A Weapon. I Would Feel More Comfortable.

If You Go And Talk To Most People, They Mean Well But They Don't Have Much Of A Breadth On Education, Of Knowledge Of Understanding What The Real Issues Are And Therefore They Listen To Pundits On Television Who Tell Them What They Are Supposed To Think And They Keep Repeating That Until Pretty Soon They Say, 'oh, Well That Must Be True.'

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I Think It's A Fallacy That Only People In Elected Office Can Come Up With Solutions That Solve Our Problems. I Just Think Maybe There's A Different Paradigm.

If I Speak In The Tongues Of Men And Of Angles, But Am Note Nice, I Am Only A Resounding Gong Or A Clanging Cymbal. If I Have The Gift Of Prophecy And Can Fathom All Mysteries And All Knowledge, And If I Have A Faith That Can Move Mountains, But Am Not Nice, I Am Nothing. If I Give All I Posses To The Poor And Surrender My Body To The Flames, But Am Not Nice, I Gain Nothing.

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When I Look At The Human Brain I'm Still In Awe Of It. Every Single Time You Lift Off The Bone And Open The Durra And There It Is - The Human Brain, The Thing That Gives A Person A Personality, That Distinguishes Each One Of Us, That There Could Be More Than 6 Billion Of Us Here On This Planet With Brains That Look The Same, But Each One Being Distinctly Different Because Of What Is Going On In That Thing. I'll Never Get Over My Awe Of That.

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You're Going To Be Much Less Likely To Point The Finger At Somebody And Create A Huge Brouhaha When It Wasn't Necessary If You Had Stopped And Asked Yourself, 'could I Have Done Things To Prevent This Situation?'

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Maybe That's The Problem. But Whether They've Heard It Of Not. The Issue Is The Train That Is Going Off The Cliff. After We Save The Country, After We Keep The Train From Going Off The Cliff, I Would Welcome, Quite Frankly, A Discussion Of Morality In This Country. I Think It Would Be A Wonderful Thing If We Bring Back Our Judeo-christian Values Once Again. I Think It Could Do Nothing But Help Us. I Would Be All In Favor Of That.

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In My Own Personal Life, God Plays A Great Role In The Risk, Because I Pray Before I Go Into The Operating Room For Every Case, And I Ask Him To Give Me Wisdom, To Help Me To Know What To Do - And Not Only For Operating, But For Everything.

There Comes A Time When People With Values Simply Have To Stand Up. Think About Nazi, Germany. Most Of Those People Did Not Believe In What Hitler Was Doing.

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?

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

Now If You Not Only Support Them Through That Pregnancy, But Now Provide Childcare For Them So They Can Go Back To School And Get Their Ged Or Their Associate's Degree Or Bachelor's Degree Or Their Master's Degree, Learn How To Take Care Of Themselves, Teach Their Baby How To Take Care Of Themselves So That You Break The Cycle Of The Dependency.

I Have Sunshine In My Heart Regardless Of Conditions Around Me.

Reading Is The Way Out Of Ignorance, And The Road To Achievement.

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People Spending More Of Their Own Money On Routine Health Care Would Make The System More Competitive And Transparent And Restore The Confidence Between The Patients And The Doctors Without Government Rationing.

Through The Use Of Books I Had The Whole World At My Feet: Could Travel Anywhere, Meet Anyone, And Do Anything.

I Actually Don't Think That I'm That Much Smarter Than Anybody Else. It's Just That I Frequently Just Seem To Know What To Do, And I Think That's Wisdom.

People Are Starving For That Coming Out Of Washington. And It's Not A Democrat Thing Or A Republican Thing. I Think It's A Politician Thing.

You Can Understand Why I'm A Believer. I Have Seen Miracles.

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

Freedom Of Speech

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My Favorite Subject Was Recess. Fortunately For Me, I Had A Mother Who Believed I Was Smart.

Favorite Subject

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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'why Risk?' I Responded. 'it Should Be, Why Not To Risk?'

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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Obamacare Is Really I Think The Worst Thing That Has Happened In This Nation Since Slavery.

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I Want The Government To Provide The Military So We Don't Get Invaded By Somebody And Destroyed. I Want The Government To Provide The Roads So I Can Get From Point A To B. In Terms Of Taking Care Of My Day To Day Needs, I Want To Do That Myself. I Want My Community To Do That.

We Need To Start Thinking About The Needs Of The American People Before We Go And Solve Everybody Else's Problems.

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America Need A Significantly Changed Taxation System. And The One That I've Advocated Is Based On Tithing, Because I Think God Is A Pretty Fair Guy. If You Give Me A Tithe, It Doesn't Matter How Much You Make. If You've Had A Bumper Crop, You Don't Owe Me Triple Tithes. And If You've Had No Crops At All, You Don't Owe Me No Tithes. So There Must Be Something Inherently Fair About It.

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I First Wanted To Be A Psychiatrist. I Decided Against That In Medical School When I Discovered That Psychiatrists Didn't, In Reality, Do What They Did On Tv.

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Our Strength As A Nation Comes In Our Unity. We Are The United States Of America, Not The Divided States. And Those Who Want To Divide Us Are Trying To Divide Us, And We Shouldn't Let Them Do It.

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Appropriateness

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.

Significant Things

The Mind Controls So Much Of The Body. We Are Much More Than Flesh And Blood; We Are Complex Systems. Patients Do Better When They Have Faith That They're Going To Do Better. That's Why I Always Tell My Patients And Their Families Not To Neglect Their Prayers. There's Nobody I Don't Say That To.

Knowledge Makes People Special. Knowledge Enriches Life Itself.

I'm Referring To Anybody Who Is Trying To Interfere With The Process Of Interfering With What The Will Of The People Are. It Is The People Who Should Make The Decision. And Whoever That Decision Is, The Establishment Needs To Get Behind Them And Push Them, Not Be Going In A Different Direction, There Is No Way That Can Be A Successful Startegy No Matter What You Believe Or Who Is The Candidate.

I Would Love To See Music Reinstated As An Essential Part Of Schooling. The Culture That It Brings; The Knowledge That It Brings. Just Learning How To Read Music Requires Metrics, And I Think That Helps You With Mathematics. A Lot Of Scientists And Doctors Have A Musical Background - It's Very Interesting.

Everyone In The World Worth Being Nice To. Because God Never Creates Inferior Human Beings, Each Person Deserves Respect And Dignity.

Here Is The Treasure Chest Of The World - The Public Library, Or A Bookstore.

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.

Over The Years My Mother's Steadfast Faith In God Has Inspired Me, Particularly When I Had To Perform Extremely Difficult Surgical Procedures Or When I Found Myself Faced With My Own Medical Scare.

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

I Grew Up In The Inner City And Have Spent A Lot Of Time There And Have Dealt With A Lot Of Patients From That Area And Recognize That We Cannot Have A Strong Nation If We Have Weak Inner Cities.

We Have The Purveyors Of Hatred Who Take Every Single Incident Between People Of Two Races And Try To Make A Race War Out Of It, And Drive Wedges Into People. And This Does Not Need To Be Done.

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

I Started Reading About People Of Great Accomplishment … And It Dawned On Me Suddenly That The Person Who Has The Most To Do With What Happens In Your Life Is You.

We Are Not Like Dogs Who Are Kind Of "what Am I Going To Eat Today? Oh, There Is A Rabbit; I Am Going To Go Chase It."

So If There Were A Container Of Contaminated Urine, And Somehow It Managed To Find Its Way To Someplace A Lot Of Damage Could Be Done. Someone Comes Up To A Lab Worker. He Knows He’s Got The Urine. ‘how Would You Like To Have A Million Dollars?’ … Such Things Have Been Known To Happen.

The Key Is To Cut Out The Middleman And Empower Both Doctor And Patient With Information About What Things Cost.

I'd Like To Be Remembered As Someone Who Got Others To Recognize The Potential That Was Within Them.

There Is No Job More Important Than Parenting. This I Believe.

It's Not What You Do But That Kind Of Job You Do That Makes The Difference.

Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

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.

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.

If God Thinks Proportionality Is Fair Who Are We To Say That It Is Unfair?

Proportionality

I Just Hated Poverty.

Everybody Has Barriers And Obstacles. If You Look At Them As Containing Fences That Don't Allow You To Advance, Then You're Going To Be A Failure. If You Look At Them As Hurdles That Strengthen You Each Time You Go Over One, Then You're Going To Be A Success.

When I Was 14, I Tried To Stab Someone.

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.

It Doesn't Matter If You Come From The Inner City. People Who Fail In Life Are People Who Find Lots Of Excuses. It's Never Too Late For A Person To Recognize That They Have Potential In Themselves.

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.

Kids Have What I Call A Built-in Hypocrisy Antenna That Comes Up And Blocks Out What You're Saying When You're Being A Hypocrite.

What You're Saying Is That 'i, The Superior Elite, Will Take Care Of You.' Why? Because, You See, That Superior, Elite Group Needs To Feel Superior And Elite. And They Can't Be Superior And Elite Unless You Have A Whole Lot Of People Down There Groveling Around. So You Keep Them Down There By Feeding Them.

I Now Had Enough Faith Not Only To Believe There Were Answer, But To Feel Certain That Those Answers Would Become Apparent At Some Point In The Future.

If For You The Most Important Thing Is To Make A Lot Of Money, Then You Don't Want To Take A Certain Type Of Risk. If, On Another Hand, The Most Important Thing To You Is To Make People Around You Have A More Fulfilled Life, Then There Is A Different Set Of Things That Are Important To You. Unless You Really Know That About Yourself, You Will Never Be Able To Appropriately Assess Risk.

We Should Be Concerned Not Only About The Health Of Individual Patients, But Also The Health Of Our Entire Society.

If You Hear How Wonderful You Are Often Enough, You Begin To Believe It, No Matter How You Try To Resist It.

Politics Is Corrupting The American Judicial System In Much The Same Way The Judicial System Was Corrupted In Nazi Germany.

Do We Have A Brain? Than Use It. It's All You Need To Overcome A Problem. That's The Secret. That's My Simple But Powerful Prescription For Life, Love, And Success In A Dangerous World.

When I Entered High School I Was An A-student, But Not For Long. I Wanted The Fancy Clothes. I Wanted To Hang Out With The Guys. I Went From Being An A-student To A B-student To A C-student, But I Didn't Care. I Was Getting The High Fives And The Low Fives And The Pats On The Back. I Was Cool.

White Liberals Are The Most Racist People There Are, Because They Put Blacks In A Box And Insist That They Think One Way - And If They Don't, They Attack Them As Illegitimate, All The While Denying That Their Policies Destroy Blacks.

I Don't Do A Lot Of Talking. I Do A Lot Of Doing. And Really, It Says More About A Person Than How Much They Talk.

I've Been Fortunate Enough To Travel To 58 Different Countries And I Thank God Everyday That I Was Born In This Country. The Most Exceptional Country That The World Has Ever Known. And I Want To Make Sure That We Preserve That Exceptionalism For The Next Generation.

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.

If You're Black And You Oppose A Progressive Agenda, And You're Pro Life, And You're Pro Family, Then They Do Not Even Know What To Call You. You End Up On Some Watch List For Extremists.

Do You Have A Brain? Then You Can Think Your Way Out Of It. The Reason We Have Brains Is So We Can Figure Out How To Do Things.

It's A Failure Only If You Don't Get Anything Out Of It, Thomas Edison Said He Knew 999 Ways That A Light Bulb Did Not Work; Yet We Have Lights Today.

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.

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.

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.

Anyone With A Normal Brain Can Do Almost Anything.

You Have Yourself To Blame.

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

Useless Knowledge

When You Look At The Way The Pyramids Are Made, With Many Chambers That Are Hermetically Sealed, They Would Have To Be That Way For A Reason. And, You Know, Various Scientists Have Said, Well, You Know, There Were Alien Beings That Came Down, And They Had Special Knowledge, And That's How They Were - You Know, It Doesn't Require An Alien Being When God Is With You.

By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

If We Commit Ourselves To Reading Thus Increasing Our Knowledge, Only God Limits How Far We Can Go In This World.

Look At All Of The Out-of-wedlock Births That Are Going On, Particularly In Our Inner Cities. I Have Been Speaking At A Lot Of The Non-profit Organizations That Support Organizations That Support These Women So That They Don't Have An Abortion, So That They Have The Baby.

Occasionally I Talk With People Who See Doctors As People Who Do Nothing But Give Of Themselves And Never Receive From Anyone Else - Especially Not From Their Patients. That Is Totally False. The Longer I Remain In My Profession, The More I Realize How Much I Receive From Those Who Come To Me For Help.

Use Pma: Positive Mental Actitude.

If Someone Has A Muslim Background And They're Willing To Reject Those Tenets And To Accept The Way Of Life That We Have And Clearly Will Swear To Place Our [american] Constitution Above Their Religion, Then, Of Course, They Will Be Considered Infidels And Heretics, But At Least I Would Then Be Quite Willing To Support Them.

We Turned Our Back On Israel, Our Ally. You Know, And A Situation Like That, Of Course [barack]obama's Not Going To Be Able To Do Anything. I Would Shore Up Our Military First, Because If You Don't Get The Military Right, Nothing Else Is Going To Work.

I Don't Want My Kids To Grow Up With No Father Like I Did. I Came To The Conclusion A While Ago That You Can Work Until Midnight And Not Be Finished Or You Can Work Until 6 Or 7 And Not Be Finished. I Decided I'd Rather Work Until 6 Or 7.

I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think What Makes Sense.

Let's Say Somebody Were [in The White House] And They Wanted To Destroy This Nation. I Would Create Division Among The People, Encourage A Culture Of Ridicule For Basic Morality And The Principles That Made And Sustained The Country, Undermine The Financial Stability Of The Nation, And Weaken And Destroy The Military. It Appears Coincidentally That Those Are The Very Things That Are Happening Right Now.

As A Pediatric Neurosurgeon, I Frequently Faced Life And Death Situations, And Had To Come Up With The Right Diagnosis, The Right Plan, And Execute That Plan Frequently With Other Colleagues.

I Have No Problem Whatsoever With Allowing Gay People To Live As They Please, As Long As They Don't Try To Impose Their Lifestyle On Everyone Else.

Through Hard Work, Perseverance And A Faith In God, You Can Live Your Dreams.

Under Islamic Law, Homosexuals - Men And Women Alike - Must Be Killed. Women Must Be Subservient. And People Following Other Religions Must Be Killed. I Know That There Are Many Peaceful Muslims Who Do Not Adhere To These Beliefs. But Until These Tenants Are Fully Renounced...i Cannot Advocate Any Muslim Candidate For President.

In Our Culture, Security Has Become An Obsession.

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.

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

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