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July does not a November election make.

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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
November
July
Election
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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 have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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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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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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
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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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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.
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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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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 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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I have an awfully good life.
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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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