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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

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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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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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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
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There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
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Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
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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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One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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