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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
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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 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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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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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 important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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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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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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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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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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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
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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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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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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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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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