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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
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 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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Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!
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To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.
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I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
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Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.
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We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.
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Consensus is the absence of leadership.
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A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you. We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.
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I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer.
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