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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.
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I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.
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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
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Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
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Consensus is the absence of leadership.
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I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.
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I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
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We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.
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I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
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Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
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