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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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.
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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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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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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.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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