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" Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. "
Jimmy Carter
Consumption
Self
Now
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" We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life. "
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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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" When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights. "
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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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" I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue. "
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" In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. "
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" We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. "
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" It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. "
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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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Wife
Drown
Get
" Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. "
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Win
Both Sides
Sides
" 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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" Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. "
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Soul
Human Rights
" Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. "
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Right
Government
" I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. "
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Racial
Time
You
" My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners. "
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Two
Honorable
Goodness
" We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs. "
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Earth
Freedom
Christian
" I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK. "
Jimmy Carter
Believe
Slavery
People
" Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. "
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Starts
California
Whatever
" America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. "
Jimmy Carter
Did
Human Rights
America
" When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. "
Jimmy Carter
Challenge
Earth
Peace
" 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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Technology
World
Computers
" It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. "
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Doors
Good
" We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. "
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Must
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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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