Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

—Margaret Thatcher

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About Margaret Thatcher

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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the...

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

—Margaret Thatcher

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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

—Margaret Thatcher

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

—Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

—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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There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

—Robert Quillen

In the Koran, Allah asks, "The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?" It's a good question. What do we think of the created universe, spanning an unthinkable void with an unthinkable profusion of forms?… If the giant water bug was not made in jest, was it then made in earnest?

—Annie Dillard

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

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Moses sees the bush as it actually is.… All that is living burns. This is the fundamental fact of nature. And Moses saw it with his own two eyes directly. That glimpse of the real world—of the world as it is known to God—is not a world of isolated things but of processes in concert. God tells Moses, "Take off your shoes, because the ground where you are standing is holy ground." He is asking Moses to experience in his own body what the burning bush experiences: a living connection between heaven and earth, the life that stretches out like taffy between our father the sun and our mother the earth. If you do not believe this, take off your shoes and stand in the grass or in the sand or in the dirt.

—William Bryant Logan

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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