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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
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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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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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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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