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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.
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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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.
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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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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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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 politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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