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Life isn't fair, but government must be.

Ann Richards

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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
Government
Must
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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July does not a November election make.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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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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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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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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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 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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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 living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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