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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Jimmy Carter

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTER

Children Each Other Goodness Necessary Time
Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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Communication Fear Hope Open Ourselves Question
Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
JIMMY CARTER

Community Division Nation
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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Ability Alignment Each Other Face Faith Government Restore Simplicity
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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Country Human Invention Reality Right
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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Chance Count Demand Difference Life Myself
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
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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Believe Country History Ourselves People Time Worst
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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Believe Fools Necessary Production State
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
One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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Greatness Leadership Nation Time
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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Country Myself Strength Wisdom World
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
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Equality Fundamental Negotiation Process
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 should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER

Life Live Ourselves

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