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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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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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 people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
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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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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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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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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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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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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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The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
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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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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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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The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.
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