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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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