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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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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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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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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 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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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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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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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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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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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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