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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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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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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