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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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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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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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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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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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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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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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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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