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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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 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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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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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Example is better than precept.
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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
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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 conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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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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Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
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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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English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
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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 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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The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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