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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.
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
Texas
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
Ann Richards
Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
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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've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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 get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
Ann Richards
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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
