"There is a strong religious commitment to the……" — Jimmy Carter
"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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Jimmy Carter
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299 Quotes by Jimmy Carter
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you…
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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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Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good.…
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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 have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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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…
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
— Robert Benchley
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
— David Brainerd
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion…
— Edmund Burke
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
— Pete Dye
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
— Plutarch
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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