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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
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New York City
New York
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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
Clare Boothe Luce
Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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