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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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 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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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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'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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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