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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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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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 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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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I have an awfully good 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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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'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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