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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

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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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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.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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I come out of real life.
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I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
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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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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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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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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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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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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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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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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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The military is already sexually integrated.
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I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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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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