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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

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
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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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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 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 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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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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