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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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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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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
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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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I have an awfully good life.
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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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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 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 have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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