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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

Barbara Bush

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Barbara Bush
Age: 92 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 8
Died: 2018
Died: April 17
Former First Lady Of The United States
Politician
Manhattan borough
New York City
Barbara Pierce Bush
Barbara Pierce
Hard
Children
Way
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Unselfishly
Witty

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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.
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There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.
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Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
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