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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have an awfully good life.
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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'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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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