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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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Understanding

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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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 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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