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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.

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 only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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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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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 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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