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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
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Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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No man is great if he thinks he is.
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Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
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It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.
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Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
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If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
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Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.
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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
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I do honestly believe the Republicans have reformed and want to do better. But whether they have done it in time to win the election is another thing. The old voter is getting so he wants to be saved before October every election year.
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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.
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Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.
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