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" Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. "
Barbara Bush
Yourself
Believe
Time
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" You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong. "
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" I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything. "
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" I'm not a one-issue person. "
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" The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. "
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" If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. "
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" You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas. "
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" I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice. "
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" Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you. "
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" I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over. "
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" Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not. "
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" Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election. "
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" Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend. "
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" When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. "
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" Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. "
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" I'm tired now of the elections. "
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" Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. "
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" I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting. "
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" And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! "
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" I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know. "
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" I'm taking a vow not to advise. "
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" Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things. "
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" I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country. "
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" At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. "
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" I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all. "
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" I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. "
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" You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die. "
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