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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
Politician
Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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Fire
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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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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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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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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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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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July does not a November election make.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.
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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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