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[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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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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[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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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