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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
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My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
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You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.
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There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.
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When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
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There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
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I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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