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Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
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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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God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'
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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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Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
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Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
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