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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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 have the money and they won't get their hands on it.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
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The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.
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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
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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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