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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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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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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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 think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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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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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'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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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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