I wasn’t lucky, I deserved it.
MARGARET THATCHERIf you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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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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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
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Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd.
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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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While the home must always be the center of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions.
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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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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defense in favor of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.
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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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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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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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