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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards
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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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July does not a November election make.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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