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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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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'
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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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If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.
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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've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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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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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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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've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
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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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I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.
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Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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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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