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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

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Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
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Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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Tabloid news is tabloid news.
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But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
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My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
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Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
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If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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I have a husband who adores me.
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You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
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