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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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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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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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 was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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