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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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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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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 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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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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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