“Do what you have to do so that you can be what you want to be”
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Ben Carson
“If you wouldn’t join in a mugging you saw taking place on a street, if you wouldn’t physically attack or verbally abuse and cruelly insult an acquaintance in your school, why would you ever ridicule or hurl vicious and hurtful words at a person online?”
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Ben Carson
“It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside.”
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Ben Carson
“Having a ballot referendum on an important issue is a farce if a federal judge can throw out the results and impose his or her own will in place of the will of the people.”
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Ben Carson
“There is no freedom without bravery.”
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Ben Carson
“listening intently, as their minister told an exciting true story”
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Ben Carson
“Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.”
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Ben Carson
“While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.”
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Ben Carson
“The fact that the Republican Party in particular often seems to stand for principle, only to cave in to pressure at the last minute, has turned off a huge number of voters.”
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Ben Carson
“Ben learned an important lesson: sometimes to survive you need to face your fear and overcome it.”
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Ben Carson
“I had not been content just to read and to learn
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Ben Carson
“Some feel that it is fair for those with incomes under a certain dollar amount not to pay any federal tax. They say that these people are too poor and it would be a great burden to require them to contribute to the common pot. While I appreciate their compassion, serious problems arise when a person who pays nothing has the right to vote and determine what other people are paying.”
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Ben Carson
“Wealthy people in the United States have created more charitable organizations and been more philanthropic than any other group in the world. We should celebrate their achievements rather than envy them.”
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Ben Carson
“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.”
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Ben Carson