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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.

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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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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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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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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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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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July does not a November election make.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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