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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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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Like
Ether
People
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Rising
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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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Example is better than precept.
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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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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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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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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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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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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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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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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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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people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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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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