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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

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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
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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 don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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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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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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. . . 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'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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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'm a little old-fashioned.
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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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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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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 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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Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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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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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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