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Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

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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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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As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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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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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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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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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I hate the fact that people think compromise is a dirty word.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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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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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.
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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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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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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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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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The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.
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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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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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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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My worst expectations never happened.
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