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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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Father
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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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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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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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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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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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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 have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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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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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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