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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.

Ann Richards

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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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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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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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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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