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" The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. "

Margaret Thatcher

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" I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. "

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

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" There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. "

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" There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. "

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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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