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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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New York City
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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 man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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 do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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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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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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