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Quotes by First-lady
"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them."
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"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things."
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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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"Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."
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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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"I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
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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."
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"We always get up about 5:30, and George gets up and goes in and gets the coffee and brings it to me, and that's been our ritual since we got married. And we read the newspapers in bed and drink coffee for about an hour probably, read our briefing papers."
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
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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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"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life."
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"Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated."
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"All of life is a constant education."
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"It's my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
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"Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
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"Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?"
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"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
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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."
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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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"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."
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"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
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"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters."
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"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'"
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"No one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone."
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"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that, you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
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"When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted."
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"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
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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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"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
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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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"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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"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
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"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future."
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"I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
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"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
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"No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is."
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"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."
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