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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

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
Society
Business
Scarcity
Emotional
Economy

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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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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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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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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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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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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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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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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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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
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Example is better than precept.
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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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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
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