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If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
First Lady
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Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
Jackie Onassis
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I want to live my life, not record it.
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Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
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Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.
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