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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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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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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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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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