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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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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
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Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.
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If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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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've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
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We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
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I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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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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Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
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The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
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And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.
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You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
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