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My mother was the center of the family.

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
Banker
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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Life is full of surprises.
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You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.
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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
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