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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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Snoring
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Cleaner
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you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
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Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
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American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
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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 soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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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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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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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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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 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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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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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 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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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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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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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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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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