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Quotes by First-lady
"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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"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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"I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
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"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."
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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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"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'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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"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin."
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"And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy."
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"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
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"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom."
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"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
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"If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters."
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"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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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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"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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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."
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"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America."
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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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"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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"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 see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated."
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"You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it."
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"Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world."
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"The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women."
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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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"But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine."
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"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you."
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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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"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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"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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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
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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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"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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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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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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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
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"Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it."
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"It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."
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"Once I 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."
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"Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in."
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"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."
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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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