Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.
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NEIL GAIMAN Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And ... NEIL GAIMAN I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari... NEIL GAIMAN Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ... NEIL GAIMAN Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted. NEIL GAIMAN Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to... NEIL GAIMAN We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We... NEIL GAIMAN I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you. NEIL GAIMAN The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world. NEIL GAIMAN The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke... NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,... NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I s... NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev... NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. NEIL GAIMAN I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody... NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�... NEIL GAIMAN I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie... NEIL GAIMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa... NEIL GAIMAN Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�... NEIL GAIMAN You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ... NEIL GAIMAN Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Fac... NEIL GAIMAN Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. NEIL GAIMAN I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m... NEIL GAIMAN Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. NEIL KENDALL New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. NEIL SIMON If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. NEIL PEART Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. JOHN NEIL It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut... NEIL ARMSTRONG