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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.

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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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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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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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.
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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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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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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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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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