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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
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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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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
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A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.
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Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.
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Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.
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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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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
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We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
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You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.
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There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.
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Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
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That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
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The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
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Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.
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