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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
Actor
Diplomat
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Journalist
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New York City
New York
Ann Clare Boothe Luce
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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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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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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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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