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Quotes by First-lady
"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."
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"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
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"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."
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"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
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"One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring."
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"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
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"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."
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"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."
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"You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it."
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"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."
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"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world."
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
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"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
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"I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world."
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"Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time."
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"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."
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"I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
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"I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time."
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"The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time."
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"Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place."
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"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
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"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."
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"The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity."
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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
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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."
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"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
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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."
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"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares."
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"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
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"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."
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"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
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"Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice."
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"I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them."
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"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."
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"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it."
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"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice."
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
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"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."
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"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
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"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
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"I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have."
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