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You Know If There Is A Rabid Dog Running Around Your Neighborhood, You're Probably Not Going To Assume Something Good About That Dog, And You're Probably Gonna Put Your Children Out Of The Way. Doesn't Mean That You Hate All Dogs By Any Stretch Of The Imagination.

-Benjamin Carson

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You Know If There Is A Rabid Dog Running Around Your Neighborhood, You're Probably Not Going To Assume Something Good About That Dog, And You're Probably Gonna Put Your Children Out Of The Way. Doesn't Mean That You Hate All Dogs By Any Stretch Of The Imagination.

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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.

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

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We Have To Destroy Their Caliphate Because That Gives Them Legitimacy To Go Ahead With The Global Jihad. We Have To Take Their Energy Because They Are - Isis Is The Richest Terrorist Organization There Is.

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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.

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I Grew Up In Detroit. I Grew Up In An Environment Where You Were Supposed To Be Democrat, Where They Told You That Republicans Were Evil People And That They Were Racist.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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You Can't Allow The Forces Of Political Correction To Shut You Up. I Mean, Why Are People Afraid To Say, 'merry Christmas?' Give Me A Break. If People Don't Like It, Yeah, They Can Go Do Something Else.

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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 .

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

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.

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.

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.

When I Look At The Human Brain I'm Still In Awe Of It.

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.

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.

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.

I See The Insurance Issue, The Coverage Of People For Healthcare In Our Country As A Huge Moral Issue. The Richest Country In The World To Have 47 Million People Without Health Insurance Is Ridiculous.

It Was Very Interesting Having An Opportunity To Talk To The Syrians Themselves. And I Asked Them: What Do You Want? What Is Your Supreme Desire? Their Supreme Desire Was To Be Settled Back In Their Own Country. I Said, "what Can Americans And Other Countries Do?" They Said, "support The Efforts Of Those Who Are Trying To Provide Safety For Us, Including The Jordanians."

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.

Success Is Determined Not By Whether Or Not You Face Obstacles, But By Your Reaction To Them. And If You Look At These Obstacles As A Containing Fence, They Become Your Excuse For Failure. If You Look At Them As A Hurdle, Each One Strengthens You For The Next.

Our Country Since Its Inception Has Been At War, Every 15 Or 20 Years. But The War That We Are Fighting Against Radical Islamist Jihadists Is One That We Must Win. Our Very Existence Is Dependent Upon That.

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

Proportionality

You Are What You Think.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Uninformed People Can Be Easily Manipulated.

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

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.

I Think God's A Pretty Fair Guy.

[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.

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.

Creativity Is Just Learning To Do Something With A Different Perspective.

There Is So Much Potential Out There In Young People And They Aren't Getting The Right Information Or Being Encouraged In The Right Ways. This Is Our Duty As A Society.

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 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 Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another.

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.

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

You Pray For Yourself And Just Ask God To Give You Strength.

Praying For You

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.

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.

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

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.

People All Over The Nation Are Starved For Honesty And Common Sense.

The Doors Of The World Are Opened To People Who Can Read.

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

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.

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

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.

Education Does Not Necessarily Make One Wise?

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.

It's Very Difficult To Speak To A Large Group Of People These Days And Not Offend Someone. I Know People Walk Around With Their Feelings On Their Shoulders Waiting For You To Say Something - Ahh - Did You Hear That? And They Can't Hear Anything Else You Say. The Pc Police Are Out In Force At All Times.

If We Allow Ourselves To Dwell On Negatives, On Hurts, On Mistreatments, We Will Be Negative Thinkers. So Be Open To Positive Thinking, Think Big!

Positive Thinking

Surrendering To Fear And Allowing Ourselves To Be Paralyzed By Peril Isn't Something Most Of Us Can Afford To Do.

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

You Know If There Is A Rabid Dog Running Around Your Neighborhood, You're Probably Not Going To Assume Something Good About That Dog, And You're Probably Gonna Put Your Children Out Of The Way. Doesn't Mean That You Hate All Dogs By Any Stretch Of The Imagination.

Do Your Best And Let God Do The Rest.

I've Had Experiences In My Life That Leave No Doubt In My Mind About The Fact That God Exists. I'm Quite Willing To Debate People Who Don't Think So Because I Want Them To Explain To Me How Did Our Solar System Get So Organized And How Is The Universe So Complex And Yet Well-organized That We Can Predict 70 Years Hence When A Comet Is Coming?

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.

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

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

In Order To Have Good Health Care You Need A Patient And You Need A Health Care Provider.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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