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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.
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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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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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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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize 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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