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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
Diplomat
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Journalist
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Politician
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New York City
New York
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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[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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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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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 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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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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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 am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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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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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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