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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.

Jimmy Carter

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
It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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Determination Failure Fear Necessary
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
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Myself Public Religious Service Violation
You always get back much more than you give.
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Generosity Karma Yourself
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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Compassionate Government Honesty Myself Nation People
Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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Life People Short Wrong
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.
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God Happiness Harmony Joy Live Peace Strong Tying
I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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Commitment Forgiveness Lust Myself Woman
I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
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Argument Myself Thinking Time Wife Win
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
JIMMY CARTER

Change Hold Principle Time
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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Knowledge Simplicity Solution Substitution
I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
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Country Fact Faith Government Myself Prayer Religious
I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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Human Peace Remember Right
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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Drown Myself Trouble Wife
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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Abuse Earth Human Violation Woman
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

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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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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