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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.
Ann Richards
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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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