"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
-Margaret Thatcher
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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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"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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