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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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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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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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. . . 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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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.
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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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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Raising George Walker was not easy.
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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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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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