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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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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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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
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In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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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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The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.
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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
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