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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: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 4
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Laura Welch Bush
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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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We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.
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What I want for children in our country and around the world is safe, stable and loving homes.
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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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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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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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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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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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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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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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Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
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Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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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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Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
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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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