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Life isn't fair, but government must be.

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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
Fairs
Fair
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Life

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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
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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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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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