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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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 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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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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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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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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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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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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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize 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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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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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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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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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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