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America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
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And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!
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It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.
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I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
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There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
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Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
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What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
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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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You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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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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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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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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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.
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