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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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Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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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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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
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Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.
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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
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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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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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