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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.
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Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
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When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
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A politician is just like a pickpocket it's almost impossible to get him to reform.
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them? Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
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You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal prisons, it brings your total membership up to around thirty thousand.
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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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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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We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
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Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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