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As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent. One thing will never change. Fathers and Mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children, you must hug your children and you must love your children…. Your success as a family, our success as a society depends not what happens at the White House, but what happens inside YOUR house.Barbara Bush
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War is not nice.Barbara Bush
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.Barbara Bush
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Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.Barbara Bush
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
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To us family means putting your arms around each other and being there.Barbara Bush
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The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.Barbara Bush
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.Barbara Bush
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Someday someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.Barbara Bush
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Whether you are talking about education career or service you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.Barbara Bush
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I'm not a competitive person and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive just nice.Barbara Bush
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You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.Barbara Bush
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You don't just luck into things ... you build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.Barbara Bush
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I listen and give input only if somebody asks.Barbara Bush
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Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood .. . but everyone has something to give.Barbara Bush
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Believe in something larger than yourself.Barbara Bush
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You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.Barbara Bush
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I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.Barbara Bush
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.Barbara Bush
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.Barbara Bush
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.Barbara Bush
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.Barbara Bush
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.Barbara Bush
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.Barbara Bush
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.Barbara Bush
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.Barbara Bush
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
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You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.Barbara Bush
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.Barbara Bush
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.Barbara Bush
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.Barbara Bush
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.Barbara Bush
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.Barbara Bush