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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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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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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 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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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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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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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Example is better than precept.
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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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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