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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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William Penn Adair Rogers
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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You politicians have got to look further ahead you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
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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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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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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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We do more talking progress than we do progressing.
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That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.
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I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
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We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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Never miss a chance to shut up
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You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
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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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In time of crisis people want to know that you care, more than they care what you know
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
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Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.
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