Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
JIMMY CARTERAlways tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
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I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
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All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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