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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
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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.
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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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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 people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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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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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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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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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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 possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
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... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
Margaret Halsey
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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Example is better than precept.
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