"Since the birth of our nation, the steady……" — Clare Boothe Luce
"Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline."
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Clare Boothe Luce
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48 Quotes by Clare Boothe Luce
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom…
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Home is where you hang your architect.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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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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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic…
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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would…
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only…
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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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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