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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
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New York City
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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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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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[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 old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
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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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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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