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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart
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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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Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.
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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
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There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.
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If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'
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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
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