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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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