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If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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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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Consensus is the absence of leadership.
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When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.
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[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
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Business success isn't just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
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Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
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We have become a grandmother.
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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
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There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
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