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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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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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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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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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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.
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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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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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I have an awfully good life.
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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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