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.
JIMMY CARTERYou 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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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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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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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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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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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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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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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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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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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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