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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
Doe
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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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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 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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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I have an awfully good life.
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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
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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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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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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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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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I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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