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"50 Ben Carson Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 18 September 1951. | Politician | Author | Neurosurgeon |

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Successful Forward Stop Fewer
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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.

Because Become Brain Fail
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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.

Everybody Gifts Goal Good
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Dreams Faith God Hard
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Both Choose Evolution Faith
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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.

Got Law Lawyers Learn
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Being Concentrate Disagree Forget
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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.

Bill Billion Dollars Easily
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We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Concerned Entire Health Individual
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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'

Brain Contains Depths Ever
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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.

Against Decided Discovered First
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

Anatomy Bomb Constantly Cut
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

Better Black Children Choices
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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.

Ability Achieve Believe Choose
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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?'

Create Done Finger Going
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Against Being Black Could
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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.

Always Everything Necessary Need
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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.

After Core Down Empire
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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.

Believe Come Defining Derive
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So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Accept After Excuses Looking
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We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

Attitude Common Country Develop
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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?

Because Comet Coming Complex
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My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

Aspect Beings Belief Body
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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.

Bones Cannot Certain Define
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When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Awe Brain Human Human Brain
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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.

Diagnosed Issues Know Like
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There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

Absolutely Affect Involved Physicians
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I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
Against God Him Please
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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.

Confidence Creator Die Empowering
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You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Big Consult Done Edge
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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.

Being Blocks Call Hypocrisy
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Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

Child Important Job Most
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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.

Afraid Allow Break Christmas
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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.

Ability Cultivate Endowed Every
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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.

Allowing America Believe Born
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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.

Care Community Destroyed Government
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The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Cost Cut Doctor Empower
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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.

Duty Encouraged Getting Information
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Believed Favorite Fortunately Had
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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.

Believe Better Brain Few
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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.

Actually Anybody Else Frequently
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I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

Always Beginning Believe Fine
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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.

Operating Own Personal Plays
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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.

System Taking Themselves Understand
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Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Anyone Brain Developing Entertainment
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

Detest Dishonesty Fare Honest
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I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
Sense Speak Truth Continue
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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.

Came Conclusion Decided Father
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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.

Person Potential Recognize Themselves
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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.

Difficult Extremely Faced Faith
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