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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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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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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 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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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