“The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once,
not build and brains and flowing speech to all.”
VIII. 167–168 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“It's all in God's hands.”
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 191
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