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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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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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A great man is one sentence.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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