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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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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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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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There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
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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 thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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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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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
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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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After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
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Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.
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I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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