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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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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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When I taught school, we just had the school cafeteria we didn't have machines or things for children to buy food from. But parents can try to educate their children about choices. A lot of everything we're talking about that has to do with heart disease has to do with the choices that we make.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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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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I'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me.
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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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The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.
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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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Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.
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No one likes to be criticized.
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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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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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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 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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Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.
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As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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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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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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