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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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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 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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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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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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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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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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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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