When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
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MARGARET THATCHER Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all ...
MARGARET THATCHER In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGARET VALOIS Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t...
MARGARET MEAD I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
MARGARET MEAD The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati...
MARGARET MEAD Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,...
MARGARET ATWOOD Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
MARGARET MEAD You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
MARGARET THATCHER I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
MARGARET MEAD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ...
MARGARET MEAD We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamu...
MARGARET MEAD Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ...
MARGARET WEIS If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
MARGARET THATCHER It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin...
MARGARET THATCHER In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD