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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
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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 an awfully good life.
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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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