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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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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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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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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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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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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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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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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