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Best Quotes by Jimmy Carter (Top 10)
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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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 strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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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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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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Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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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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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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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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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
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Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
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You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.
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I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
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