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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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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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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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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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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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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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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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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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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[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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A great man is one sentence.
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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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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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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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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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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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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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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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No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
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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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