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Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

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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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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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Life isn't fair, but government must be.
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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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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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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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I have an awfully good life.
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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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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
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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.'
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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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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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We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.
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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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Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
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