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.
JIMMY CARTERToo many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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 have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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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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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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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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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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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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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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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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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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The truth is that male religious leaders have had – and still have – an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
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We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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