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" Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. "

Margaret Thatcher

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" To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects. "

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" Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. "

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" What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. "

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" I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. "

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" This lady is not for turning. "

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" No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent. "

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" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "

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" It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. "

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" One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. "

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