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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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Lacy Lakeview
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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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.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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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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