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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

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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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Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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