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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.
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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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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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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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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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 wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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[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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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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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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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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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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