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A road to a friend's house is never long.

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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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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 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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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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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 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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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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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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 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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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