Benjamin Carson Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we…
• 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…

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