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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
Scarcity
Emotional
Economy
Society
Business

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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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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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Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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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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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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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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 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 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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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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