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You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
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Don't invite me if you don't want me.
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A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.
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The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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America has the best politicians money can buy.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.
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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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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 I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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Always drink upstream from the herd.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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