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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
Ann Richards
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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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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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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 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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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 have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
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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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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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