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Quote by Jimmy Carter
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-

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

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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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History
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Jimmy Carter
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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 others children. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace
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Jimmy Carter
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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring. – Jimmy Carter

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Running
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Jimmy Carter
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They dont start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne

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Experience

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. – Shelley Winters

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Experience

Truth be told, Im not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though its been my experience that most people dont want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. – Richard Russo

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Experience

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! – William Shakespeare

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Experience

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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken. – Barry White

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Freedom

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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Art

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question. – Emily Greene Balch

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Medical

Risk — If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesnt know how wide it is, hell jump and six times out of ten hell make it. – Proverb

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Risk