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Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.
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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
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We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
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