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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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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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 a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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 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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