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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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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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 very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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July does not a November election make.
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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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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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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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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 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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Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
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