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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
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Lacy Lakeview
Texas
Dorothy Ann Richards
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July
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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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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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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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 did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
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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 have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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 have an awfully good life.
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A road to a friend's house is never long.
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