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.
JIMMY CARTERIf you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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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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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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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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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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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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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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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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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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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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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I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
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I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
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