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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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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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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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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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[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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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