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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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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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[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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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