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• No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

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  Blue, Talking, White

  "European spring".

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• Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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  Opiates, Communism, Guillotine

  Newsweek, January 24, 1955.

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• Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

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  Summer, Spring, Age

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• I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

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  Writing, Nervous, Tics

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• I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

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  Ambition, Dies

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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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  Party, Squids, Goal

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• They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

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  Democrat, Catastrophe, Troubadours

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• A great man is one sentence.

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  Men, Great Men, One Sentence

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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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  Loyalty, Sex, Men

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• Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

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  Years, Psychology, Brain

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• You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

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  Daughter, Suicide, Brother

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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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  Travel, Gay, Reason

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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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  Children, Home, School

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• Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

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  Sex, Frozen, Assets

  The Women act 1, sc. 1 (1937)

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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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  Men, Growing, Way

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.25, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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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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  Christian, Women, America

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

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  Life, Zoos, Women

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

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  Husband, Women, Thinking

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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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  Thinking, President, Vices

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• Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

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  Home, Government, Library

  "Internet regulation 'a threat to civil liberties'" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2000.

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• I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

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  Enemy, Died, Warm

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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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  Lying, Fall, Creative

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• It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

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  Jealousy, Suicide, Reason

  Clare Boothe Luce (1966). “The Women”, p.85, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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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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  Believe, Men, Belief

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• Thoughts have no sex.

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  Sex

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