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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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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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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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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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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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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