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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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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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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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