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Ben Carson
American
Scientist
Born:
Sep 18
,
1951
Believe
God
Me
People
Think
You
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
Ben Carson
Work
God
Dreams
Faith
Hard Work
You
Perseverance
Live
Through
Your
Hard
Your Dreams
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.
Ben Carson
Best
Good
You
Fight
Matter
Pressure
Never
Feed
How
Motivation
Off
Goes
Turn
Planning
Away
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.
Ben Carson
Freedom
People
Freedom Of Speech
Nation
Think
Innocently
Say
Restrictions
Proponent
Freedom Of Expression
Pillars
Imposed
Quite
Really
Who
Media
Expression
Largest
Founding
Things
Here
Speech
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.
Ben Carson
Life
Great
You
Great Things
Achieve
Believe
Everything
Way
Ability
Make
Make It Happen
Go
Pray
Going
Want
Happen
Which
Your
Choose
Prepare
Things
We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
Ben Carson
Class
People
Political
Enemies
Power
Country
Every
Others
Only
Chasm
Between
Importance
Understand
Political Class
Friction
Little
Create
Creating
Little Thing
Derives
Who
Uses
Each
Media
Thing
Need
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.
Ben Carson
Good
Leadership
Will
Leader
Think
Everybody
Good Leader
Keys
Harness
Those
Recognizing
Gifts
Toward
Talents
Learn
How
Goal
Same
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
Ben Carson
Knowledge
You
Sometimes
Surgeon
Valuable
Important
Become
Fail
Because
Important Thing
Brain
Person
Trying
Mean
Keep
Thing
There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.
Ben Carson
Parenting
Job
Important
Believe
More
Than
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.
Ben Carson
Life
God
Faith
Guidance
Amazing
My Life
Doors
Tremendous
Way
Guided
He
Opens
Him
Always
Pray
Pray For
Provides
Just
Right
Career
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.
Ben Carson
God
Me
Relationship
You
Confidence
Son
Important
Encouragement
Universe
Having
Gives
He
Know
Most
Knowing
Most Important Thing
Him
Empowering
Important Thing
His
Sins
Very
Die
Owner
Move
Move Forward
The Most Important
Loves
Sent
Your
Forward
Creator
Thing
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.
Ben Carson
Life
You
Too Late
People
Never Too Late
Matter
Too
Late
Recognize
City
Find
City People
Potential
Never
Fail
Come
Excuses
Lots
Person
Themselves
Who
Inner
Inner City
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.
Ben Carson
You
Risks
People
Worth
Value
Important
Value System
System
Taking
Know
Because
Understand
Very
Which
Themselves
Then
Your
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.
Ben Carson
Saying
You
Hypocrite
Hypocrisy
Kids
Out
Call
Antenna
Blocks
Up
Being
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.
Ben Carson
Together
Values
Lost
Roman Empire
Sense
Down
Those
Moral
Empire
Like
Terms
Were
Very
Quickly
Tubes
Roman
Just
After
Us
Much
Who
Right
Things
Core
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
Ben Carson
Win
Law
School
Problems
Thinking
Solve
Law School
About
Lawyers
Learn
Got
How
Start
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
Ben Carson
Home
People
Argument
Rational
Throw
Points
Names
Because
Around
Opponents
Hammering
Which
Illogical
Keep
Thinkers
We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.
Ben Carson
Saying
People
Offended
Somebody
Believe
Say
About
Point
Over
Reached
Talk
Because
Got
Get
Afraid
Where
Want
Sensitivity
Might
Really
Keeps
Actually
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.
Ben Carson
You
Political
Responsibility
Take Advantage
Party
Extremely
Frankly
Having
More
Take
Advantage
Arm
Feels
Like
Particularly
Well
Understand
Political Party
Quite
Quite Frankly
Really
Uninformed
Populace
Works
Media
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.
Ben Carson
Christmas
Me
You
People
Political
Else
Say
Correction
Give
Something
Give Me
Something Else
Allow
Like
Merry
Forces
Yeah
Go
Up
Afraid
Break
Mean
Why
Shut
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.
Ben Carson
You
People
Sit
Other
Find
About
Tend
Facts
Names
Talk
Call
Around
Intelligent
Intelligent People
Grade
Each
Playground
Third
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
Ben Carson
Look
Still
Brain
Human
Human Brain
Awe
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
Ben Carson
Life
Me
Black
Everything
Easily
Could
Cruel
Stacked
Being
Decided
Against
Meant
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
Ben Carson
God
You
Please
Purpose
Him
Against
Who
Serve
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.
Ben Carson
God
Me
Opportunity
Doors
Believe
States
Those
Born
Throughout
Lifetime
Allowing
Opened
Greatest
America
Many
United
United States
United States Of America
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Ben Carson
War
God
Freedom
Religion
Freedom Of Speech
Freedom Of Religion
Resist
Speech
What I agree with is that we 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. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make.
Ben Carson
God
Me
You
Matter
Think
Changed
System
Pretty
Give
Give Me
Guy
He
Fair
Know
Make
Because
Said
How
How Much
Taxation
Much
Agree
Based
Need
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