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• Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have faced, I've never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and the impact of this event on the history of the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Baby, Religious, Jesus

  Jimmy Carter, Amy Carter (2004). “Christmas in Plains: Memories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

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  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Gay, Men

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• My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

  Jimmy Carter

  Harry Truman, President, Truman

  "Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

  Jimmy Carter

  White, House, Wish

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• I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

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  Christian, Years, Doubt

  "President Jimmy Carter Authors New Bible Book, Answers Hard Biblical Questions". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I'm not a mediator or a negotiator. I don't want to be one.

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  Want, Mediators

  "Carter is upbeat about peace talks in Mideast WORDS OF WISDOM The former president offers encouragement to new U.S. envoy - and the rest of us. Q&A". Interview with Bill Lambrecht, www.stltoday.com. February 1, 2009.

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• I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

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  Letting Go, Believe, People

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• "Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.

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  Real, Justice, Matter

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• We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

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  Country, War, United Nations

  "Jimmy Carter on His New Book Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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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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  Nice, Memorable, Patriotic

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• The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

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  Commitment, Age, Income

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• We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.

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  Country, War, Rain

  "Nobel Prize for Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 25, 1991.

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• Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

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  Freedom, Fate, Rights

  Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977.

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• Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

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  God, Science, Power

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

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  Life, Spiritual, Patriotic

  "President, peacemaker, peanut farmer". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

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• It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon.. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky.

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  Fun, Moon, Color

  "Outrageously Bizarre Facts about U.S. Presidents" by Julian Fama, abcnews.go.com. August 08, 2012.

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• Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.

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  Opportunity, Destiny, Safe

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• Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.

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  Winning, Destiny, Energy

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

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  Men, People, Goal

  Jimmy Carter (1982). “Keeping faith: memoirs of a president”

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• We have a special relationship with Israel. It's absolutely crucial that no one in our country or around the world ever doubt that our number one committment in the Middle East is to protect the right of Israel to exist, to exist permanently, and to exist in peace. It's a special relationship.

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  Country, Israel, Numbers

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America's own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel's security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer the world.

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  Religious, Unique, Israel

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• In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.

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  College, Men, Pigs

  "Carter is upbeat about peace talks in Mideast WORDS OF WISDOM The former president offers encouragement to new U.S. envoy - and the rest of us. Q&A". Interview with Bill Lambrecht, www.stltoday.com. February 1, 2009.

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• In an all-out nuclear war, more destructive power than in all of World War II would be unleashed every second during the long afternoon it would take for all the missiles and bombs to fall. A World War II every second-more people killed in the first few hours than all the wars of history put together. The survivors, if any, would live in despair amid the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicide, War, Fall

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Jimmy Carter”

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978". Book by Jimmy Carter, 1979.

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