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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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