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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.
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 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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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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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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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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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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