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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.

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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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New York City
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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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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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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