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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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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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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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One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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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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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 said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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July does not a November election make.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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 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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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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