Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
JIMMY CARTERWe must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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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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Throughout my life, I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people’s lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
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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.
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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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.
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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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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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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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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 hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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