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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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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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 am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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A great man is one sentence.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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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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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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.
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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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