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You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

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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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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
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Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
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There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.
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Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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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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