In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.


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There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot...
MARGARET STOHL
The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
MARGARET THATCHER
Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
MARGARET LINDSEY
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO
Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ...
MARGARET THATCHER
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo...
MARGARET THATCHER
Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not al...
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