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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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Maggie Thatcher
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I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.
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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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Our children need strong families raising them with sturdy virtues, not to be smothered in the cold arms of the state.
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.
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It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
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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 was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.
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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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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.
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