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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
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
- Jimmy Carter
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
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We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay
and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,
but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists
to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
- Jimmy Carter
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- Jimmy Carter
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
The awareness that health is dependent
upon habits that we control
makes us the first generation in history
that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- Jimmy Carter
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives
when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
- Jimmy Carter
We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.
I've never detected any conflict between
God's will and my political duty.
If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq
was unnecessary and unjust.
And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
- Jimmy Carter
People make a big fuss over you when you're President.
But I'm very serious about doing everything I can
to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
Republicans are men of narrow vision,
who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy,
because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
- Jimmy Carter
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights.
In a very real sense, it is the other way around.
Human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands
is to demonstrate here that our democratic system
is worthy of emulation.
- Jimmy Carter
I say to you quite frankly that
the time for racial discrimination is over.
- Jimmy Carter
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and
the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- Jimmy Carter
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation
of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
Whatever starts in California,
unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay...
does not represent the will of the American people.
I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong.
I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse
to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
- Jimmy Carter
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
In this outward and physical ceremony,
we attest once again to the inner
and spiritual strength of our Nation.
As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say:
"We must adjust to changing times,
and still hold to unchanging principles."
- Jimmy Carter
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.
- Jimmy Carter
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never obtain peace in the outer world
until we make peace with ourselves.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inner peace is a choice -
make that choice today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
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