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Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.

Rosalynn Carter

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Rosalynn Carter
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: August 18
Autobiographer
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
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Georgia
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
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If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.
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