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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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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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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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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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