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Margaret Thatcher
England
13 Oct 1925 // 8 Apr 2013
Stateswoman
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On Character:
I'm not hard � I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Daily Mail (London) (1972)
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On Politics:
I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.
Diaries (1994)
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On Life:
Battles in life are never won... Life's a continuous business, and so is success, and requires continuous effort.
New York Times (1989)
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On Money:
Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.
Observer (London) (1979)
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On Politics:
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
People (1975)
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On Wealth:
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
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On Leadership:
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
Woodbury Reports Archives (1997)
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On Fame:
We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Speech (1985)
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On Patience:
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Observer (London) (1989)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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