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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 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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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I have an awfully good life.
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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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July does not a November election make.
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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'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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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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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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