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If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.
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'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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The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.
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I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.
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I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.
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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.
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We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.
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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
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I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
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The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
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Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.
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Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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