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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
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I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margret Mead: Some personal views (1979) p. 249 -
I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
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I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
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I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.
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I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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