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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
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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'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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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 have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'
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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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July does not a November election make.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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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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