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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
Depended
Mediocrity
Cherish
Friends
Family
Doe
Life

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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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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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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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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