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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

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
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Next
Truth
Ideas
Years
Blasphemy
Liberating

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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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Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
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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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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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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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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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Example is better than precept.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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