Fall Quote by Margaret Halsey

“Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.”

Margaret Halsey

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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

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the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

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Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

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I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

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The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible…

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Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

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Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society…

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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…

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Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

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