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They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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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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If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
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The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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Just read the farm relief bill. It's just a political version of Einstein's last theory. If a farmer could understand it, he certainly would know more than to farm. He would be a professor at Harvard.
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If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.
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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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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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It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
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