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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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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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[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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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 are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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A great man is one sentence.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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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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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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