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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 Lane Welch Bush
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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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No one likes to be criticized.
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A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone.
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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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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 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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We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.
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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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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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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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Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.
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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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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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