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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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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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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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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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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