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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Ann Richards
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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Lacy Lakeview
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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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'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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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