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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.
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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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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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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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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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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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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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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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people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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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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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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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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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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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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