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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.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.
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There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.
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We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
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I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.
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I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.
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I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
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I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
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After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream
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I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
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Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.
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I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
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The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.
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