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Quotes by First-lady
"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since."
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"Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day."
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"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"
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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 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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"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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"An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor."
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
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"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters."
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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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"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country."
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"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
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"I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
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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 think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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"The giving of love is an education in itself."
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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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"The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband."
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
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"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."
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"You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right."
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"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
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"I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it."
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"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
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"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
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"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."
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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 better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
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"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."
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"I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics."
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"Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?"
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"Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive."
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"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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"I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
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"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."
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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."
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"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."
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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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"Actors are one family over the entire world."
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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
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"There is a growing wave in this country of fear, and of intolerance which springs from fear. Sometimes it is a religious intolerance, sometimes it is a racial intolerance, but all intolerance grows from the same roots."
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"Politics is a people business. I like people."
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"And who knows? Somewhere out there 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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"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
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