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Quote by Jimmy Carter
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge

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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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. – Jimmy Carter

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Patriotism
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Jimmy Carter
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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

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Government
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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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Health
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Peace
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We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides. – Ariel Sharon

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Peace

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real in which every human being can thrive in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed. – Abdallah II

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Peace

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration – everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong. – Jermaine Jackson

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Peace

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. – Deepak Chopra

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Skipping is a form of flying. – Jessi Lane Adams

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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. – William Kingdon Clifford

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I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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