Quote by Jimmy Carter
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I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I dont think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. – Jimmy Carter

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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace
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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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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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Health
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Faith
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I dont know what religious people do. I kind of wished Id been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma. – Marcia Wallace

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My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him. – Allyson Felix

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Faith

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Faith

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play – and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger. – Eliot Spitzer

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Faith

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I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted. – Frederick Reines

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Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period. – Terri Guillemets

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Society

If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. – Martina Navratilova