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I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that if you opt for children - be you man or woman - you have to take care of them.

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
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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 don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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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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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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 know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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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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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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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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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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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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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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