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Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
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Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
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