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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.
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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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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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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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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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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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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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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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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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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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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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Example is better than precept.
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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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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 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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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.
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