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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!
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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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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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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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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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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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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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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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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A great man is one sentence.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
Clare Boothe Luce
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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