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I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
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Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction the only one stuck is the last one.
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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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Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.
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It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.
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Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.
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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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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.
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The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
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People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.
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