When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or … - Jimmy Carter

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One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

Jimmy Carter

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. . . My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Beautiful, Differences, Dream, People, Pot, Yearnings

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. . . They're the guiding lights of a life.

Compassion, Helping Others, Humility, Love, See, Service

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