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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.
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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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A great man is one sentence.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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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 men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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[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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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