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" You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. "
Barbara Bush
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" Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time. "
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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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" Value your friendship. Value your relationships. "
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" I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time. "
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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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" My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George? "
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" It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean. "
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" Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. "
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