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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
Children
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Love
Unselfishly
Witty
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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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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I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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