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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
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Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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I have an awfully good life.
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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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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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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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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 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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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