"Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give."
"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 will always have to temper those things with ethics."
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Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence. Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.
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