the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. . . . It … - Margaret Halsey

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In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

Margaret Halsey

the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. . . . It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.

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What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

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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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As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

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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.

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