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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
Mediocrity
Cherish
Friends
Family
Doe
Life
Depended

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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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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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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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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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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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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I have an awfully good life.
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