“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.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“Pennies do not come from heaven — they have to be earned here on earth.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“I don’t mind how much my ministers talk — as long as they do what I say.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“I shan’t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“This lady is not for turning.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“The cocks may crow, but it’s the hen that lays the egg.”

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

Margaret Thatcher
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“You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

Margaret Thatcher
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“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”

Margaret Thatcher
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