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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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[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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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 was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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