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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.

Laura Bush

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Laura Bush
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
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Laura Welch Bush
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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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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.
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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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A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.
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We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.
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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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I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
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All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.
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Books are important. They help you sleep at night.
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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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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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The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.
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Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
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As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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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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We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.
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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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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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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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