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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?
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The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.
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The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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That's the trouble with our charities we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.
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Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
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