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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

Jimmy Carter

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
JIMMY CARTER

Fear Humanity Prejudice Strong
The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
JIMMY CARTER

God Happiness Harmony Joy Live Peace Strong Tying
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Conflict Environmental Nature Place Water
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
JIMMY CARTER

Existence Life Opportunity Peaceful Right Suffering
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
JIMMY CARTER

Achievement Fear Human Mad Yourself
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
JIMMY CARTER

Knowledge Simplicity Solution Substitution
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 CARTER

Care Day Important Remove Run Value
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Compassionate Guide Important Justice Life Light See Truth
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
JIMMY CARTER

Citizenship Helpless Measurement Treat Weakness
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
JIMMY CARTER

Direction Hate Live Prevail
I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
JIMMY CARTER

Kindness Myself Place Position Service
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Human Invention Reality Right
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Chance Count Demand Difference Life Myself
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTER

Each Other Live Togetherness
I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
JIMMY CARTER

Character Farmer Heart Myself
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
JIMMY CARTER

Consumption Ourselves Worship

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