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Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.

~Ben Carson

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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 do with what happens in your life is you.

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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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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.

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There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

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I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

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Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

~Ben Carson

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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.'

~Ben Carson

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

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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 around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

~Ben Carson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: September 18th, 1951

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