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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

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
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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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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
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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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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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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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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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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. . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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