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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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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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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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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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July does not a November election make.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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'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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children.
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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