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Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

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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.
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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 get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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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. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.
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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
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You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.
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When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
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