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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.
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
Money
Pitiful
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Sex
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Business
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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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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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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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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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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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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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Example is better than precept.
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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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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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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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