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You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

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Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
Attorneys In The United States
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Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
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I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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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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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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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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I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
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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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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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You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
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I love children, love spending time with them I love getting things for them.
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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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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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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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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