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Benjamin Carson

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Benjamin Carson blends surgical precision with a storyteller’s heart. In this collection of 321 statements you’ll encounter his blend of scientific rigor, personal tenacity, and hope for progress.

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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021.

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About Benjamin Carson

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. Carson is one of the most prominent black conservatives in the United States.

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Quotes by Benjamin Carson

You have yourself to blame.

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Blame

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When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.

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Stab

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Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

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Mental

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I think God's a pretty fair guy.

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Fair

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I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

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Inspirational

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Stop thinking of failing.

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Failing

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I just hated poverty.

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Hated

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Economics is not brain surgery.

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Brain

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You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.

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Asks

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I don't worry about things that aren't important.

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Fear

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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

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Knowledge

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You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.

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Believer

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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

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Manipulated

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If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

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Ifs

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There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

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Believe

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We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

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Believe

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I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to…

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Accomplishment

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I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just…

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Come up

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Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.

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Baby

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Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree…

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Degrees

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We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

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Continue

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It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light…

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Bulbs

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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?

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God

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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…

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Gifts and talents

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It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where…

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Comets

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America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who…

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America

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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang…

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Care

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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…

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Bigs

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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.…

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Bones

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My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believed in God, anything is…

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American values

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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone…

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Advantage

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I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says…

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Happiness

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I think Americans is a very special nation that was created so that people could be free. And they could be free…

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Americans

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We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against…

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Age

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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running…

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Better things

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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,…

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Areas

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Now if you not only support them through that pregnancy, but now provide childcare for them so they can go back to…

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Associates

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Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough…

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20th century

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If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain…

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Able

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Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people,…

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Country

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