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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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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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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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[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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[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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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