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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.
Ann Richards
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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
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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