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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
Actor
Diplomat
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New York City
New York
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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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[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.
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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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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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