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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.
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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 not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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July does not a November election make.
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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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We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.
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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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