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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #because #dignified #down #else

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#always #apply #believe #between #church

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#between #built #christian #christianity #expense

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#belief #between #conflict #detected #divorce

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#attitude #baptists #because #believe #between

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#appropriate #because #believed #billy #billy graham

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#crude #delicate #finally #first #nature

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#another #another way #anywhere #being #being afraid

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#any #burn #continued #decent #europe

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#america #both #critical #economies #energy