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Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?


Margaret Rogerson

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MARGARET FULLER One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
MARGARET BROWNLEY What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words....
MARGARET OLIPHANT The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
MARGARET GATTY I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a...
MARGARET THATCHER The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
MARGARET SACKVILLE I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
MARGARET THATCHER The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you nee...
MARGARET YOUNG