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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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[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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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