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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

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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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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 believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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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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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'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
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July does not a November election make.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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