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.
JIMMY CARTEREveryone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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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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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
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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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You always get back much more than you give.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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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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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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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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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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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