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Firsts Quotes by Margaret Thatcher
- There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality…
- Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth…
- Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
- It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of…
- What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,…
- The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services…
- The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.
- There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.
- Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know
- I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing…
- First you win the argument, then you win the vote.
- People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong