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" I grew up in a Navy family. "
Elizabeth Edwards
Navy
Up
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" I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs. "
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" You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. "
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" I think I did marry a marvelous man. "
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" I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. "
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" I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. "
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" Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened. "
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" You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers. "
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" We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot. "
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" By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information. "
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" Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. "
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" I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me. "
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" I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. "
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" I want to reclaim who I am. "
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" I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us. "
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" I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. "
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" It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home. "
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" I want to live. "
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" Maybe we all change over time. "
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" Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them. "
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" I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me. "
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" People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child. "
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" A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you. "
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" I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning. "
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