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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.
Ann Richards
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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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You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.
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Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
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I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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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'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.
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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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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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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
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