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We can overcome evil with greater good.

Laura Bush

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Laura Bush
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
Autobiographer
Former First Lady Of The United States
Hiv Activist
Librarian
Politician
Teacher
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Midland
Texas
Laura Welch Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush
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Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.
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Jenna's traveled with me they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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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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certainly the women's health part is something that I've become very interested in. It's not something I thought about when George [Bush] was elected...what I'd always been interested in was education.
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But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.
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We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.
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It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.
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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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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.
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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 seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.
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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'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me.
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It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.
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It's really important for boys to have a father around, or a grandfather, or an uncle - a man they can really relate to who loves them, and who they know loves them.
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I'm not the one who was elected. Although she disagreed with her husband on a lot of issues, she emphasized, I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
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Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.
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I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons.
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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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