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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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[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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[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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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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