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Jimmy Carter

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
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Conflict Environmental Nature Place Water
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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Believe Country History Ourselves People Time Worst
It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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Determination Failure Fear Necessary
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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Compassionate Guide Important Justice Life Light See Truth
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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Life Moments Wonder
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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Equality Fundamental Negotiation Process
Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
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Conservation Energy Permanent Preparation Quick
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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Children Each Other Goodness Necessary Time
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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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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Kindness Myself Place Position Service
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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Different Ourselves People Sin
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
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Country Myself Strength Wisdom World
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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Change Hold Principle Time
America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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