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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
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It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.
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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
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Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.
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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
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The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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No man is great if he thinks he is.
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There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
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I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
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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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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
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Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
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