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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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The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.
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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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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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No one likes to be criticized.
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It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.
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As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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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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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'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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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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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Reading will give you lasting pleasure.
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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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