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Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs. Esther Dyson		Friday Mar 13, 2026
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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, thatbeing what it isit falls so short of in fact and in deed. Clare Boothe Luce

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	Clare Boothe Luce
	Clare Boothe Luce (10 April 1903, New York City - 9 October 1987, Washington DC) was an American editor, playwright, social activist, politician, journalist, and diplomat. Witty, perceptive, and determined, she was also a prominent figure in New York society circles. Read More

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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

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.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

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

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

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

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, thatbeing what it isit falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different selfin the mirror of some woman's eyes.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

No good deed goes unpunished.

In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.