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The following is from the introduction to LIFE’s special tribute issue, Jimmy Carter: A Noble Life, which is available online and at newsstands.

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In 1968 LIFE magazine summed up the appeal of French philosopher and author Albert Camus with a single sentence: “Camus looked directly into the darkness as saw sun—the human …

But by that time she had been competing in the sport for decades, and she had been around horse tracks from the beginning of her life—quite literally. Burright was born on the infield of a …

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