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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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
Sequential
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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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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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