I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHERIt’s a funny old world.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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Well, there’s a lot to react against!
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Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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It’s a funny old world.
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The facts of life are conservative.
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Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.
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New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a correct view then you cease to have new ideas.
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
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Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.
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If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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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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