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Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

Laura Bush

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Laura Bush
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
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I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all the research on heart disease has really been based on men, and needs to be updated with research on women - even very early-stage research is done using male rats!
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.
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There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.
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I like this idea of generation after generation helping children on the streets, kids who have run away fleeing violence. I like the whole idea of opening arms for children who have nowhere else to go, sleeping by dumpsters.
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Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all.
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I'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me.
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Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.
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The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.
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When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them.
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We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.
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I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?
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For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men need to know their rights.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
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I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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