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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

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
Friendships
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Friends
Faith
Family
Important
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Life

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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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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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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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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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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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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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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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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'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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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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I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them.
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