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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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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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