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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
Learning
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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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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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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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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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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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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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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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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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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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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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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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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 am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
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