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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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Nothing
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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 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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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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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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Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.
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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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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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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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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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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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
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