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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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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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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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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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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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