You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
JIMMY CARTERBecause (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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
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I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
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We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
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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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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.
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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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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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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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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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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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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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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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