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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Consensus is the negation of leadership.
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There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
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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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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.
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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
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