I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTERI’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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
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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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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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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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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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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.
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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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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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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