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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
Cherish
Friends
Family
Doe
Life
Depended
Mediocrity

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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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I have an awfully good life.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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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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I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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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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