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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
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July
Election
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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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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 a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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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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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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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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