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Jimmy Carter Quotes: We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
         

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.


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