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

Jimmy Carter

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Hands Intimidation Opinion People
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
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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Change Choice Suffering Togetherness Work
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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Damage Drugs Possession
I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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Character Farmer Heart Myself
One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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Country Demand Discussion Inheritance Problem Serious
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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Consumption Ourselves Worship
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
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Equality Faith Inferior Play Prevent View Woman
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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Aggression Angry Sick
I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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Aware Change God Happiness Himself Peace Way
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 cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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Leadership War Weapon World
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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Concentration Decision Difficult Lock
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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Definition Human Identity Oneself
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
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
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Difference Nation Source Strength

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

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