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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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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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