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

Jimmy Carter

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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Existence Life Opportunity Peaceful Right Suffering
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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Existence Hungry Peace Poverty World
You always get back much more than you give.
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Generosity Karma Yourself
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
Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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Interest People Possible Service Truth Yourself
Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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Answer Faith Final Necessary
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
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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Definition Human Identity Oneself
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
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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Effect Spirit Wind
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Country Human Invention Reality Right
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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Achievement Fear Human Mad Yourself
Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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Community Division Nation
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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Direction Hate Live Prevail
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
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Deal Government Powerful Privilege Test
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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Art Beautiful Different Dreams Hope Pieces

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