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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 (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
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 (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... Takes on the character of divine revelation (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn’t have been more surprised and pleased (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
... 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 Quotes)
Every time I think I’ve touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
When I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o’clock (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
In the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter’s, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it (Margaret Halsey Quotes)
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