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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.

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
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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