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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
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Yonkers
New York State
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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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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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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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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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Example is better than precept.
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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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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
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In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in 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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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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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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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 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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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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