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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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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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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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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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