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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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