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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.
Ann Richards
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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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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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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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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've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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