Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
It was unfortunate for other women who might come after Margaret Thatcher that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Delay is the enemy of progress.
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Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.
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CNN’s Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that’s who we blame for Rick Sanchez.
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I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.
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We have to provide a roadmap for the Abuja peace process.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.
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With Viagra you've got an onset of action of an hour and it lasts for four hours, and here's a new drug that has an onset of 16 minutes and lasts all day, ... Which might appeal for someone who wants to have more flexibility with their sexual experience.
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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It was unfortunate for other women who might come after Margaret Thatcher that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.
