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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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The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
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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 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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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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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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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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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 conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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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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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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 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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