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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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Example is better than precept.
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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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Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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'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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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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 people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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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 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 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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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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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