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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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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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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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We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.
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