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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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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 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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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.
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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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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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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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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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People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
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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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