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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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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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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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 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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I have an awfully good life.
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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
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You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.
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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'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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July does not a November election make.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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