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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.
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
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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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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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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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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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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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