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As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.
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 do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
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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 judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.
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Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.
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While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
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I want my money back!
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