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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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Ann Richards
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 1
Died: 2006
Died: September 13
Former Governor Of Texas
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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