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Clare Boothe Luce Inspirational Quotes (47)

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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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A great man is one sentence.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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