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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

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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
Intellectual
Understanding
Instinctive

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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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 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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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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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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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