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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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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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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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