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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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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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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 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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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