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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.
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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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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
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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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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.
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I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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