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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
Lawyer
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Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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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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Tabloid news is tabloid news.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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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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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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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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I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
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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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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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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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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
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She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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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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I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
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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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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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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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