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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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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
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They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.
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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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The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.
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Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
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Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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