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When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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