Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
JIMMY CARTERWe know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
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You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
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This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
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I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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What are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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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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Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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