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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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 role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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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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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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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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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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Example is better than precept.
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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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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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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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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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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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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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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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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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