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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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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
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It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about it's the return of my investment
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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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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart
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There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.
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Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
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When you're through learning, you're through.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
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Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
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Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.
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Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.
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Common sense ain't common.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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