Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. - Jimmy Carter

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Jimmy Carter

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Aggression, Contagious, Disease, Patriotic, Presidential, Unopposed

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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.

Compassion, Helping, Nation, Rashness, Strong, Thoughtful

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.

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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.

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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

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