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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

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 have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.
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Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.
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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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I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
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