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.
JIMMY CARTERI say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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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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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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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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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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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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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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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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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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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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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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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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