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A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Elizabeth Edwards

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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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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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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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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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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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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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I come out of real life.
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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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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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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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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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It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.
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I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
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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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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
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