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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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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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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 always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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 have an awfully good life.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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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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