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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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