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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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