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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.

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We Are More Than

Benjamin Carson

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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.

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Anyone Who Can't Learn From Other People's Mistakes Simply Can't Learn, And That;s All There Is To It. There Is Value In The Wrong Way Of Doing Things. The Knowledge Gained From Errors Contributes To Our Knowledge Base.

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The Roman Empire Was Very, Very Much Like Us. They Lost Their Moral Core, Their Sense Of Values In Terms Of Who They Were. And After All Of Those Things Converged Together, They Just Went Right Down The Tubes Very Quickly.

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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.

We Don't Need To Set This Up As We Either Take A Bunch Of Refugees Who Will Be Infiltrated With Terrorists, I Guarantee You. For Them Not To Be Would Be Terrorist Malpractice. And We Need To - To Choose The Right Choice, Not These False Choices.

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."

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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.

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.

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That's The Only Way We're Going To Get Through These Programs. That Is True Compassion. Having People Become Dependent On Others Is Not Compassion At All.

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You Have The Ability To Choose Which Way You Want To Go. You Have To Believe Great Things Are Going To Happen In Your Life. Do Everything You Can - Prepare, Pray And Achieve - To Make It Happen.

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Economic Sanctions

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.

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 We Acknowledge Our Need For God, He Will Help Us.

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Positive Thinking

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Even If You're Bill Gates, You've Got Problems. I'm Sure He Would Probably Easily Give A Few Billion Dollars To Get Rid Of All The Problems That He Has.

They Were Saying You Would Be A Tremendous Addition To The Military, And We Can Get You Into West Point With A Full Scholarship. And I Simply Said, I Want To Be A Doctor. I Really Appreciate It.

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Appropriateness

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You Should See The Eyes Of Some Of Those Children When I Say To Them We're Going To Have To Open Your Head Up And Take Out This Tumor. They're Not Happy About It, Believe Me. And They Don't Like Me Very Much At That Point. But Later On, They Love Me.

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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.

I'm A Part Of The Gop And Let Me Tell You What My Stance Is. My Stance Is That, We The People Have The Responsibility To Take Care Of The Indigent In Our Society. It's Not The Government's Job. You Can Read The Constitution All You Want, It Never Says That It Is The Government's Job And I Think Where We've Gotten Confused.

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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.

I Would Love Us To Bring Back Our Juedo-christian Values And Begin To Teach Those Things, At A Time Other Than A Political Election.

Education Does Not Necessarily Make One Wise?

This Whole Concept Of Boots On The Ground, We've Got A Phobia About Boots On The Ground. If Our Military Experts Say, We Need Boots On The Ground, We Should Put Boots On The Ground And Recognize That There Will Be Boots On The Ground And They'll Be Over Here, And They'll Be Their Boots If We Don't Get Out Of There Now.

I Find The Big Bang, Really Quite Fascinating. I Mean, Here You Have All These Highfalutin Scientists And They're Saying It Was This Gigantic Explosion And Everything Came Into Perfect Order. Now These Are The Same Scientists That Go Around Touting The Second Law Of Thermodynamics, Which Is Entropy, Which Says That Things Move Toward A State Of Disorganization.

If You're A Christian And You're Running For President And You Want To Make This Into A Theocracy, I'm Not Going To Support You.

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?'

I Was Asked By An Npr Reporter Once, Why Don't I Talk About Race That Often. I Said It's Because I'm A Neurosurgeon. And She Thought That Was A Strange Response. And You Say - I Said, You See, When I Take Someone To The Operating Room, I'm Actually Operating On The Thing That Makes Them Who They Are. The Skin Doesn't Make Them Who They Are.

By Reading So Much, My Vocabulary Automatically Improved Along With My Comprehension.

Health Care Is One-sixth Of Our Economy. If The Government Can Control That, They Can Control Just About Everything. We Need To Understand What Is Going On, Because There Are Much More Economic Models That Can Be Used To Give Us Good Health Care Than What We Have Now.

Economic Models

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.

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

The Truth Is, The Liberal Policies Of The Elite Class Have Done Little To Improve The Lot Of Those Who Depend So Much On Them. In America's Black Communities, Where The Goodies Have Been Flowing For Decades, Rather Than Seeing Improvements In Terms Of Upward Mobility, We Are Seeing Deteriorating Family Structure, Increases In Violent Crimes, Growing Poverty, And Growing Dependence. Even With Such A Blatant Record Of Failure, There Is Slavish Devotion To The Elite Class Who Continue To Promise More Goodies In Exchange For Votes.

Anyone With A Normal Brain Has The Capacity To Do Almost Anything, But When One Has Special Gifts Or Talents (and Everyone Has) And Takes Advantage Of And Develops These Talents - That Person Is Likely To Excel.

I Came Away With The Idea That Respect Is Really The Solution. We Need To Teach Young People To Respect Authority - Particularly, Respect The Law.

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.

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

Freedom Of Speech

There Is No Such Thing As An Average Human Being. If You Have A Normal Brain, You Are Superior.

We Have To Take Isis Oil, Shut Down All Of The Mechanisms Whereby They Can Disperse Money Because They Go After Disaffected Individuals From All Over The Place, And They're Able To Pay Them.

My Experience Has Confirmed The Wisdom Of So Much Of What The Bible Teaches.

No Matter How Good You Are At Planning, The Pressure Never Goes Away. So I Don't Fight It. I Feed Off It. I Turn Pressure Into Motivation To Do My Best.

Call It Whatever You Need To Call It To Make It Feel Good To You. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, I've Been In Lots Of Place Growing Up And Listening To People Tell Great Tales Of Sexual Conquest. It Is An Immature Thing To Do -

The Brain Can Process Two Million Bits Of Information Per Second. It Remembers Everything You've Ever Seen, Everything You've Ever Heard.

Remembers Everything

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."

We Need To Be Doing Lots Of Other Things With The Resources That We Have. So Economic Power Works Just As Well As Military Power, Perhaps Even Better. And Speaking Of That, Our Military Needs To Be Upgraded.

The Outstanding Doctor Constantly Emphasized The Humanitarian Aspect Of Medical Care.

We Have Much Better Policies Than The Democrats Do.

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

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I Just Happen To Believe That People Are Not Stupid.

The Government Is Supposed To Respond To The Will Of The People. Not Dictate To The People What They Are Doing.

And I've Always Said, 'if Two People Think The Same Thing About Everything, One Of Them Isn't Necessary.' We Need To Be Able To Understand That If We're Going To Make Real Progress.

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.

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

I Always Pray For God's Guidance In My Life And He Always Provides It. He Opens The Right Doors He Shuts The Right Doors. And I Have Tremendous Faith In Him. He Just Guided My Career In An Amazing Way.

Marriage Is A Very Sacred Institution And Should Not Be Degraded By Allowing Every Other Type Of Relationship To Be Made Equivalent To It.

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.

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

There Are A Group Of People Who Would Like To Silence Everybody And Have Everyone Go Along To Get Along, But That’s Not Going To Be Very Helpful For Us In The Long Run In Terms Of Solving Our Problems, And Someone Has To Be Courageous Enough To Actually Stand Up To The Bullies.

I'm The Only One To Separate Siamese Twins.the Only One To Operate On Babies While They Were Still In Mother's Womb, The Only One To Take Out Half Of A Brain.but I'm Very Hopeful That I'm Not The Only One Who's Willing To Pick Up The Baton Of Freedom, Because Freedom Is Not Free, And We Must Fight For It Every Day. Every One Of Us Must Fight For It, Because We're Fighting For Our Children And The Next Generation.

I Began To Realize That Poverty Was Really More Of A Choice Than Anything Else And That I Could Change That. And It Just Really Depended On How Hard I Wanted To Work.

The More I Learn About The Human Body, Our Environment, And The Universe, The More It Increases My Faith.

I Think One Of The Keys To Leadership Is Recognizing That Everybody Has Gifts And Talents. A Good Leader Will Learn How To Harness Those Gifts Toward The Same Goal.

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?

A Great Operation On The Wrong Patient Is Just As Bad As A Horrible Operation On The Right Patient. So, You Have To Have All That Together.

I Have No Problem With Being Vetted. What I Do Have A Problem With Is Being Lied About And Then Putting That As Truth.

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.

I Just Hated Poverty.

A Culture Exists Within The [ted] Cruz Camp That Would Allow People To Take Advantage Of A Situation Like This In A Very Dishonest Way.

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.

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

Knowledge Makes People Special. Knowledge Enriches Life Itself.

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.

So We [americans] Have A History A Taking Care Of Each Other. Now, For Some Strange Reason Starting Sort Of In The 20's With Woodrow Wilson, The Government Started Getting Involved In Everything.

You Know, When You Go Into The Store And Buy A Box Of Laundry Detergent, And The Price Has Gone Up - You Know, 50 Cents Because Of Regulations....and Everything Is Costing More Money, And We Are Killing Our People Like This....it's The Evil Government That Is Putting All These Regulations On Us So That We Can't Survive.

You Need An Incredible Amount Of Self-confidence To Go Digging Around In Someone's Brain.

Self Confidence

I Wish The Government Would Read The Constitution. I Think That Would Probably Help Quite A Bit. And Maybe They Did Read It And Maybe They Got Confused When They Read The Preamble Which Says One Of The Duties Is To Promote The General Welfare.

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

Useless Knowledge

What If Someone Hit Us With An Emp, Cyber-attack, And Dirty Bomb All At Once? That Would Be Pretty Bad.

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

We Get Out Of Life What We Put Into It. The Way We Treat Others Is The Way We Ourselves Get Treated.

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

There's A False Narrative That Only The Political Class Has The Wisdom And The Ability To Be Commander-in- Chief. But If You Go Back And You Study The Design Of Our Country, It Was Really Designed For The Citizen Statesman.

There Are Two Different Donald Trump's. There's The One You See On The Stage And There Is The One Who Is Very Cerebral. He Sits There And Considers Things Very Carefully. You Can Have A Very Good Conversation With Him. And That's The Donald Trump That You'll Going To Start Seeing More And More Of.

Good Conversation

I'm A Good Neurosugeon. That's Not A Boast But A Way Of Acknowledging The Innate Ability God Has Given To Me. Beginning With Determination And Using My Gifted Hands, I Went On For Training And Sharpening For My Skills.

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.

I Wouldn't Go To War Over Ukraine.

I Have This Feeling That As Time Goes On, We're Not Getting Any More Civilized, And We Should Be. We're Still Running Around Like The Days Of Genghis Khan. There Are So Many Important, Better Things To Do And We Need To Encourage People To Reach Into The Brighter Side Of Humanity And Not Encourage People To Continue To Glorify The Darker Side.

We Recognize That North Korea Is In Severe Financial Straits, And They Have Decided To Use Their Resources To Build Their Military, Rather Than To Feed Their People And To Take Care Of The Various Humanitarian Responsibilities That They Have.

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

A Lot Of People Who Go Into Prison Go Into Prison Straight - And When They Come Out, They're Gay.

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.

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.

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

We're Not Planning For The Future. If We Continue To Spend Ourselves Into Oblivion, We Are Going To Destroy This Nation.

Secular Progressivism, Which Attempts To Remove God From The Public Square, Is Not Consistent With The Principles That Established The Usa.

If We Recognize Our Talents And Use Them Appropriately, And Choose A Field That Uses Those Talents, We Will Rise To The Top Of Our Field.

[donald Trump] Is Talked About Enormous Loss That We've Had In This Country By Allowing Radical Islamic Extremists To Run Rampant Without Having A Coherent Plan For How To Destroy Them, Not Just To Contain Them, But To Destroy Them. And The Implications Of That For All Families Who Are Losing Service Members Is Significant.

Nobody Can Hinder You From Doing What You Want, If That's What You Set Your Mind To. You Can Always Find A Hook To Hang Excuses On, But They're Only Excuses. You Don't Have Anyone To Blame But Yourself. Nobody Else Makes You Fail.

Doing What You Want

So After A While, If People Won't Accept Your Excuses, You Stop Looking For Them.

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.

A Lot Of People Simply Don't Realize Their Potential Because They're Just So Risk Adverse. They Just Don't Want To Take The Risk.

Right Now, The United States Of America Is The Patient. And The Patient Is In Critical Condition And Will Not Be Cured By Political Correctness And Will Not Be Cured By Timidity.

These Are Just Things That We Don't Know, And That's Where Trust And Faith Come In.

Trust And Faith

There Is No Fulfillment In Things Whatsoever. And I Think One Of The Reasons That Depression Reigns Supreme Amongst The Rich And Famous Is Some Of Them Thought That Maybe Those Things Would Bring Them Happiness. But What, In Fact, Does Is Having A Cause, Having A Passion. And That's Really What Gives Life's True Meaning.

People Are Worried About If Somebody's Going To Say That I'm Islamophobic Or What Have You. This Is Craziness Because We Are At War. That's Why I Asked Congress, Go Ahead And Declare The War .

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

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.

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.

We Need To Be On A War Footing. We Need To Understand That Our Nation Is In Grave Danger.

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.

It's Ridiculous That Our Solar System, Not To Mention The Universe Outside Of That, Is Extraordinarily Well Organized, To The Point Where We Can Predict 70 Years Away When A Comet Is Coming.

No One Is Ever Better Off With Dictators But There Comes A Time You Know, When You're On An Airplane, They Always Say, "in Case Of An Emergency Oxygen Masks Will Drop Down. Put Yours On First And Then Administer Help To Your Neighbor." We Need Oxygen Right Now.

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 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.

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

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.

I Never Had Money For Anything. But I Tell You What Did Really Work - Books. Between The Covers Of Those Books I Could Go Anyplace, I Could Be Anybody, I Could Do Anything.

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

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.

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.

Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

What Is Important - What I Consider Success - Is That We Make A Contribution To Our World.

Economics Is Not Brain Surgery.

You Have Yourself To Blame.

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