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Quotes by First-lady
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time."
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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
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"I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband."
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"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.'"
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"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
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"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
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"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
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"Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
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"I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat."
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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."
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"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
Bed,
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"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
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"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction."
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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
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"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."
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"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
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"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
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"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
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"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself."
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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."
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"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
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"The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling."
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"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home."
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"We are coming back just four years from today."
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"My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?"
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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
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"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
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"When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell."
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"I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books."
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"You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk."
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"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
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"It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation."
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"And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take."
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"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."
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"The giving of love is an education in itself."
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"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
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"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."
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"You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities."
Luck,
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"And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation."
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