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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
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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Teaching
Education
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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