If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
— Margaret Thatcher Contemporary

British PM, Iron Lady

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Interview with The Daily Telegraph

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1979

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103986

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