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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
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Beings
Communications
Industry
Inhuman
Impossible
Tide
Knowledge
Tides
Human
Imperfect
Humans
Advertising
Perfection
Bathed
Communication
Ceaseless

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