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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.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
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New York City
New York
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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A great man is one sentence.
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