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The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, theres only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. – Jimmy Carter

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The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedys deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or 79. – Jimmy Carter

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I dont claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday Im home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter. – Jimmy Carter

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Theres no doubt that usually a presidents public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me. – Jimmy Carter

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. – John Terraine

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black mans right to his body, or womans right to her soul. – Emma Goldman

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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. – James Buchan

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