I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
JIMMY CARTERI hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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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.
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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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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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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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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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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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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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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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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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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.
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I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
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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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