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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.
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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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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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
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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 important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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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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Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.
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