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The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
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A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
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The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
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I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is Sound, and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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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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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.
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Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
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Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
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Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
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If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
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If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
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I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
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