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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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