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Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.
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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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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them.
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In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.
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Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
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